TPUSA YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT: DAY 2 (6-14-25)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Real America's Voice. We're broadcasting live from Dallas
with the Young Women's Leadership Summit in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
You were made for very specific purpose here on Earth.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Join the largest conservative women's conference celebrating ten years of truth,
health and freedom.

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We care about life in every single issue.

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We're bringing together icons like Charlie Kirk, Rightley Gains, Maureen.

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Bannon, and Moore Shoes Motherhood, discover.

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Your sisterhood, reclaim your quoter. The Young Women's Leadership Summit
starts right now, and good morning.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Welcome to Real America's Voice.

Speaker 6 (00:46):
I'm Alison Hans, coming to you live from West Palm Beach.
It has been an exciting weekend in Dallas, Texas, where
young women from across the United States have all gathered
for Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
The event kicking off.

Speaker 6 (01:02):
Last night with Churning Points founder Charlie Kirk speaking alongside
his wife Erica.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Now there is an impressive list.

Speaker 6 (01:09):
Of star studied Conservative speakers in Dallas.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
For the weekend.

Speaker 6 (01:13):
Director of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbard, congress Woman Nancy Mays,
and women's sports activist Riley Gaines. Are all on the
line up to speak about top issues facing young women today.
The theme of this year's event is emphasizing faith, femininity,
and well being as foundational aspects of womanhood.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Let's check in with our RAV.

Speaker 6 (01:36):
Contributor Emily Finn, who is there live with the latest.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Good morning, Emily, how are you well?

Speaker 7 (01:46):
Good morning to you, Allison. The energy is pretty high
here in Dallas, Texas at the Young Women's Leadership Summit.
As you said, the theme of this year really emphasizing faith, femininity.

Speaker 8 (01:56):
Well being of women.

Speaker 7 (01:58):
We could talk a little bit about how the theme
has really changed at this event over the years. This
is not my first time in Dallas with Turning Point
USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit. I was here four years ago.
I was actually a breakout speaker at that event. I
was a public speaking speaker, was telling some of the
young women some tips and advice on how to be
a public speaker. And that's exactly what is going on

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right now at today's event. The breakout sessions are happening.
Some of the themes of those breakout sessions is how
to make an impact leadership, redefining women's roles in society.
What a women's roles should be in family as well.
Those have been all really hot topics of conversation at
the summit here, Allison, we have a lot of speakers

(02:42):
coming up later tonight as well. Last night we heard
from Alex Clark, who is a Turning Point USA contributor.
She's a host of Culture Apothecary, which is one of
their podcasts, a very on brand conversation and podcast for
society today. It really focuses on the make a marya
Healthy Again movement about health for women today and really

(03:04):
thinking outside of the norm and thinking outside of the
box when it comes to women's health.

Speaker 8 (03:09):
So we heard from Alex Clark last night.

Speaker 7 (03:11):
Dana Laush, a conservative commentator, she was also on stage.
We wrapped it all up with Turning Point USA's founder
Charlie Kirk. He took the stage alongside his wife Erica,
talked a lot about family values as well. But today
we have a lot of speakers coming up as well, Allison.
Like I said, the breakout sessions are happening right now.
Later in the evening, we'll be hearing from women's sports

(03:31):
activist Riley Gaines. There has been a lot of attention
on Riley lately, given a recent feud between her and
gymnast Simone Biles. All had to do with trans in
women's sports, which we know is Riley's main issue that
she speaks about.

Speaker 8 (03:50):
So that's going to be really interesting to see what
she has to.

Speaker 7 (03:53):
Say tonight during her speech. Looking a little bit further
in the evening, Elena Cardone will be speaking as well well,
and so will Savannah Krizly. So lots of big names
in the conservative movement coming up here tonight, Allison.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
A lot of excitement.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Wow, And I'm so impressed that you were a speaker
four years ago. You must have been a little baby,
you're so young.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
It is a great conference.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
I was there two years ago, so I love it.

Speaker 7 (04:21):
Yeah, it is a great conference, Allison. So I will
say just talking about the theme a little bit here.
When I was here with Turning Point USA four years ago,
it was really like a girl Boss Barbie theme.

Speaker 9 (04:34):
You know.

Speaker 7 (04:34):
I brought my hot pink jumpsuit to wear for this
event because that's what everyone was wearing four years ago.
But looking around, I don't have a monitor in front
of me, so I'm not sure if we're able to
show all of our viewers what this event looks like.
But you can tell even just in the decor, in
the fashion.

Speaker 8 (04:50):
All of you know, women love fashion.

Speaker 7 (04:52):
So I've been looking around at all of the outfits,
everything that women are wearing.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
I've been seeing a lot of it's like a homestead.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
You know.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
The kids are calling it trad wife vibes these days.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
So that has been.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
Yeah, that has been the theme of this year.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
I was speaking with one of the organizers, one of
the Turning Point USA organizers of the events, and she
said that the theme of this year was to really
inspire coming home right.

Speaker 8 (05:18):
President Donald Trump is now back home.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
He's back home in the White House, and so that
was going to be the theme.

Speaker 8 (05:23):
Of this to really channel first Lady energy.

Speaker 7 (05:26):
But I must admit, Ellison, everyone seems to be really
going back to the theme of last year, which was
that homestead, the trad wife, you know, the family values.
I'm just seeing it everywhere here. We're hearing country music
a whole ton. It's a very cool atmosphere to be
a part of.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Very interesting. Well. I can't wait to dig into all that.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
I would love to take a look at a clip
from last night when Charlie Kirk spoke and he welcomed
the crowd in. So we can kind of set the
stage of what this event is for those who may
not be familiar with it. So let's take a look
at that club.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
So a lot of these young ladies have competing pressures
right now.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
OK.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Some might even have parents.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
That are like, Hey, you got to get a job,
you got to build your career, you got to build money.
Marriage can come later. Marriage can come later. However, some
ladies might be getting different advice from this conference or
from even inside. They say, boy, I might want to
get married sooner rather than later. How do they balance
that in a godly and biblical way.

Speaker 10 (06:27):
That's hard because usually those voices are coming from your parents.
I mean they were for me, And so it's hard
because you're in that in between of honoring your parents
but also knowing that there's a conviction.

Speaker 11 (06:40):
In your heart to have a family.

Speaker 10 (06:43):
If you want, you can literally write down what your career,
what you want that to look like on a piece
of paper, put in an envelope, go pursue.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
If you find the right guy. That's ninety percent of
the problem is find the right finding the right.

Speaker 10 (06:59):
Person first, then building your life and once you do
find the right person and your family loves.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Them, your parents.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
Are going to be way more understanding and into.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
The fact of you having a family.

Speaker 12 (07:13):
I think that's ninety percent of that.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
So let me ask you raise your hand. If you
had to choose between amazing career amazing family, you have
to choose who here would choose amazing careers.

Speaker 12 (07:22):
That's fine if you do, please, like seriously, please.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Raise your hand.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
There's a couple of hands amazing family. Although the hand's
got it, okay. So for everyone that rowse at the
hand of amazing family, how many of you every single
day it's your purpose for being is finding a husband,
then every hand should then go up. But I thought
you said you want an amazing family. You have to

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prioritize and aim at what you want the most. I
might be the only speaker that says this in these
next couple of days.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
You just have to make sure that you find the
right you.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Know, I know you have to prioritize it.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
I know, But you can't be like you can't be like.

Speaker 10 (08:00):
A heath seeking missile where you're like you see a
guy in the back room and you're like hi, Like,
you can't there's like some new Once I get what
you're saying, I understand his sentiment.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
If you are if you're not married by the age
of thirty, you only have a fifty percent chance of
getting married. And if you don't have kids by the
age of thirty, you have a fifty percent chance of
not having kids. You should know that. And now I'm
not telling you anything that.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Is that provocative.

Speaker 11 (08:26):
It's just the data.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Right, having children our gift from the Lord, and unfortunately
our culture deemphasizes it. And again, you get what you
aim at, you get what you prioritize, and so yeah,
I just it's interesting because every hand accept a couple.
And that's what I'm not even saying which answer.

Speaker 11 (08:44):
Is right or wrong.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
It's just if that matters more for you, then everything
you do on a daily basis should point towards that.

Speaker 10 (08:53):
To add on to that for the women who are
getting married after thirty, that's okay. I'm trying to bridge
the gap here because it is okay. It's not ideal,
it's not probably the best statistical odd position for you,
but it's but God.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Is good and nothing there's nothing wrong with it, right,
it's right.

Speaker 13 (09:20):
I find.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
No it's good. This is good.

Speaker 12 (09:24):
If everyone.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
If you just want happy talk, that's fine.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
It's good. God is good.

Speaker 10 (09:31):
You'll find your human I found Mine's amazing.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
So how do you tell young ladies to navigate the
pressures of hookup culture on a college campus where they
feel pressured that if they don't get into let's just say,
sexual situations with a male counterpart, then they will not
be able to find a boyfriend or a husband.

Speaker 10 (09:58):
He's not meant to be with you like honor. He
needs to honor your purity. Save it for your husband.
That's simple. Stave it to your husband.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Talk more about how they should go about doing that,
because the pressures are so enormous. From free contraceptives to
the podcast they listen to. How many of you feel
as if it's very difficult to maintain your purity on
a college campus?

Speaker 5 (10:24):
Raise your hand?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay not Actually it's less than I thought, So it's easy. Good, No,
I guess it's fine. How many How many people would
you what percentage of young ladies by the time they
graduate college do you think still are virgins? Less than
twenty five percent? So it's not that easy. Okay, that's interesting. No,

(10:47):
I just think I'm just trying to process it because
I don't think the church talks enough about purity, right.
I think it's it's incredibly important, and we should tell
young men and young ladies to save themselves from marriage.
It's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
Right.

Speaker 5 (11:03):
No, I agree, because a lot of people will say.

Speaker 10 (11:06):
Well, how do I know that I'm compatible with that
person unless I test drive the car before I buy it.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's not a real thing.

Speaker 10 (11:17):
Don't listen to that lie, because when you make that
covenant with the Lord on that altar, don't let that
fire burn out from the altar.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
That love is so special and so powerful.

Speaker 10 (11:32):
You will have natural chemistry within that marriage. It's not
like you're marrying a robot.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
Like you married your soulmate.

Speaker 10 (11:41):
You married the person who God made for you.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
You're going to be compatible.

Speaker 6 (11:48):
Oh, Emily, Emily, Emily, Okay, I have to jump in
and get my thoughts on this, and then I want
to hear what you have to say. And I know
that there is an age difference between the two of us.
First of all, I just love the truth that these
two human beings sitting on the stage out there telling
their story. And I think by sharing their story, the

(12:10):
women in the audience, these young women in the audience,
they can have options, they can make decisions for their
lives that are really going to have such beautiful effects
years down the road. This type of messaging, this type
of story was not out there ten years ago.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
It wasn't out there fifteen years ago.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
This is just so it's so beautiful and it really
makes me so proud to see women like this of
faith and spirituality who have conviction. And she's not judging anybody.
She's saying, hey, go out there, be you do you.
But this is the benefits. These are the things, the

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gifts that you can have if you wait for someone,
if you live impurity.

Speaker 5 (13:01):
If you have a good life.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
It's just it's extraordinary because I definitely grew up in
the sex and the city culture and that was definitely,
you know, kind of rampant in the nineties and the
two thousands and certainly on the college campuses. And to
have this message out there, which let's keep it in context.
This is a this is a big conference, but when
you talk about the country, a relatively small group that

(13:25):
this message is being targeted to, I think it's one
that I hope grows and that we hear across the country.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Okay, I've talked enough Emily your thoughts.

Speaker 8 (13:37):
No, I am so happy that you brought up all
of those points.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Ellison.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
You know, I have to say, I think what you
stood out the most that sex and the city culture
that you referred to. I promise you it's only gotten
worse over the generations and over the years.

Speaker 8 (13:49):
I mean my generation.

Speaker 7 (13:50):
In my culture, it's the only fans culture. And so
I think it's great that Turning Point USA is able
to have an event like this for young women that
offers an alternative to that narrative that is being pushed
on women in the mainstream.

Speaker 8 (14:03):
And I will say I give.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Charlie a lot of credit and a lot of respect
for bringing his wife on stage with him.

Speaker 8 (14:08):
I was way more interested to hear what Erica had
to say.

Speaker 7 (14:11):
I mean, she's a young woman, she had to go
through all of this, she had to face all of
those challenges head on, and so there's no one better
to listen to than someone who was brave enough to
actually make that leap of faith. And I think what
Erica said that stood out to me the most. It
was so impactful that you want to wait for the
right person to make.

Speaker 8 (14:30):
That leap of faith with.

Speaker 7 (14:31):
And she even said that, you know, even if you're
after thirty years old, wait for that right person, you're
gonna be Okay, you're gonna find that person. You have
to stick true to your values and not compromise.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Who you are.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
And I just so so respect that sentiment from Erica,
and I think that's incredible advice for young women. I
will say, though, Allison, you know, I'm twenty eight years old,
and it's terrifying that statistic that Charlie brought up that
after thirty the chance of getting married goes down fifty percent,
the chance of having children goes down fifty percent.

Speaker 8 (15:00):
And I'm sitting here like man a year and a
half away.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
That is like a lot of pressure.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
So I think it's great.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
Though that these conversations are happening for young women, though
they need to be aware, you know, of those statistics,
aware of, like you said, Ellison, the options that they have,
and so more power to turning point USA for entertaining
these conversations.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
Absolutely, and I have full faith Emily, you are going
to find your human You are too special and.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
Lovely and beautiful not to so no doubt, no worries.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
However, the truth of the situation is that we do
need to give women the information that they need in
terms of timelines, because there is this whole uh there
was this for a very long time. It was go out,
get a career, and for many people this was a
normal thing to say, go freeze your eggs, freeze your eggs,

(15:51):
go make it in the corporate world, and then when
you have your job, then you can find your person
as if that's the way it was supposed to be.
And that was really the messaging over the past ten years,
fifteen years. And to see this type of messaging start
to percolate, percolate.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
It's just extraordinary. Just I absolutely love it, and I.

Speaker 6 (16:13):
Want it for I really want it for the young
women who many young women who I've seen over the
years at so many women's conferences that all it was
was about being a girl boss, being a girl boss.
And now these days you mentioned the only fans that
is like beyond that's absolutely ridiculous and so sad, because

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the pressure on young women to look a certain way
and to act a certain way is just it's unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
It's real.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
It absolutely is real, and I think that actually kind
of translates into dating culture today as well. I think
both men and women who are young have a really,
really hard time with that. And you know, I think
what the conversations I've been hearing at this conference is
that there's a lot of responsibility on young women to
not participate in the only fans culture, as you brought up, Allison,

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the sex and the city culture. To not let that
peer pressure kind of take over you, because at the
end of the day, it's not going to be fulfilling.
You're getting so far away from your values, from your
faith from God. It's just as I said, just not fulfilling, Alison.
And I am so happy that these conversations are happening
here in Dallas this weekend, you know, kind of offering

(17:28):
an alternative to that mainstream that we've we've been referring to.
And I will say one person that we heard from
last night that I was really impressed with was Alex Clark.
She is a podcaster, she's the host of Culture Apothecary.
Culture Apothecary really dives in I had mentioned this a
few minutes ago when we were when we were speaking Allison,

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that it dives into thinking outside of the norm when
it comes to your health. I think this also goes
hand in hand with the conversations that we've been having
about sexuality for young women, for dating culture, because women's hormones, right,
I mean that definitely plays a role into our emotions
and how we respond or behave or react to certain

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situations and so on. Culture Apothecary. Just one thing that
they talk about often is birth control right. Different things
that you can do for your health, and you don't
necessarily have to follow what everyone else is doing. You
have the power as a young woman to make your
own decisions. And so I love that podcast so much.
I love Alex Clark. I love that she's brave enough

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to have those kind of conversations about women's health. I
believe that we may have some clips from her speech
last night, Allison, maybe we can listen in a bit
about what Alex Clark had to say.

Speaker 14 (18:42):
One year ago, I stood on this stage and I
told the doubters, the people who had accused me of
not knowing what I was talking about when I said
that health was going to be the future of the
conservative movement. They accused me actually of sabotaging the conservative
movement by warning women that hormonal birth control was poison,
a fact that I still stand by today. They said

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I didn't know what I was talking about when I
was saying last year on this stage that if conservatives
own the fight against food and big pharma, we would
win the twenty twenty four election.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
They laughed.

Speaker 14 (19:19):
They called me a crunchy conspiracy theorist. No surprise to me.
At least they were wrong.

Speaker 12 (19:25):
I was right.

Speaker 15 (19:28):
Bobby Kennedy Junior dropped out.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
He endorsed Donald Trump.

Speaker 14 (19:31):
They both pledged to make America healthy again. And guess
what Donald Trump won, gaining eleven points.

Speaker 16 (19:38):
With young women eighteen to twenty nine.

Speaker 15 (19:41):
Compared to twenty twenty.

Speaker 14 (19:49):
Well, it turns out when you tell women the truth
about what's going on with their food and what's being
injected into their children, they don't want a fact check.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
They want to pitchfork.

Speaker 14 (20:01):
This isn't your grandma's GOP no offense, grandma's we love you.

Speaker 15 (20:06):
This is Whole Foods meets.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
The West Wing.

Speaker 14 (20:10):
It's collagen, callouses and conviction. It's castor oil, Christ and
a well stocked pantry.

Speaker 15 (20:17):
It's not just a movement, it's a mood.

Speaker 11 (20:22):
And let's talk about this.

Speaker 14 (20:23):
Movement, MAHA Make America Healthy again. What is it?

Speaker 9 (20:27):
Well?

Speaker 15 (20:28):
We are pulling women into the fold.

Speaker 14 (20:30):
Through truth, truth about health, femininity, and freedom because we
see with our own eyes that something is deeply wrong.
Autism rates went from one in ten thousand and nineteen
eighty to an explosion.

Speaker 15 (20:45):
Of one in thirty six.

Speaker 14 (20:46):
Today, forty percent of American children are obese or overweight.
PCOS polycystic ovarian syndrome affects one in ten American women.
Infertility it's rising one percent every single year. And SSRI prescriptions,

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that's your antidepressants, your anti anxiety medications. They have doubled
in the last decade for young women. We are the
sickest generation and our kids are on track to be sicker.
But MAHA is fighting back and we're winning. We're not
asking for permission from legacy media, the CDC, or your

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sociology professor. We're flipping the tables and we're rewriting our
own story. Thanks to relentless moms, fearless women like Vonnie Harry,
my friend the food Babe, who's exposed fake ingredients for years,
and then policy fire brands like Callie Memes, who is tearing.

Speaker 11 (21:54):
The mask off of big Pharma.

Speaker 14 (21:56):
We've been stacking wins that they said were impossible.

Speaker 15 (22:00):
The FDA finally banned.

Speaker 14 (22:02):
Toxic food dies, but only after we embarrass them into it.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
They were fine with.

Speaker 14 (22:09):
Your kids eating red dye until conservative moms on Instagram
made more noise than the lobbyists. We cracked open the
baby formula monopoly, and now the cartel that's been force
feeding infant seed oil, soy and corn.

Speaker 15 (22:23):
Syrup has been put on notice.

Speaker 14 (22:25):
Your days of poisoning babies for profit are numbered. Any
Utah girlies in the house. There's some Utah people. Anyone else?
Anyone else? So Utah, You guys said something really great.
You banned fluoride from public water because no mass medication

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without consent is not public health.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
It's chemical control.

Speaker 14 (22:55):
California, anyone, California? Okay, Yeah, California is phasing out ultra
process slop from school lunches. Guys, When the wokest state
in the country starts sounding like the Western a Prize Foundation,
you know the tight is turning.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
This isn't a.

Speaker 14 (23:16):
Hippie side hustle anymore. MAHA is the new health authority
in America. We don't need credentials from Yale to know
that your cereal shouldn't have the same ingredients as carpaint.

Speaker 15 (23:31):
And here's the cherry on top. RFK Junior didn't just
endorse Trump.

Speaker 14 (23:35):
He recently helped decapitate one of the most corrupt.

Speaker 15 (23:38):
Institutions in the country.

Speaker 14 (23:41):
This week, RFK Junior helped push out seventeen members from
the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Panel. This CDC vaccine Advisory Panel,

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by the way, are the unelected bureaucrats who've packed the
childhood schedule shot after shot, year after year without any
safety data. In some states, your kid leads up to
ninety two doses just to attend school.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
But here's what they never told you.

Speaker 14 (24:33):
Not one of those vaccines was tested against a true
placebo in pre licensing trials. Not one fact check that
Wall Street Journal.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
Oh, Emily, she is absolutely amazing. And you know what
I want to say to the Republican Party. This the
health issues, Maha. That is the key to pick the lock.
If you want those women out there in the suburbs,
this is how you're going to get to them.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
You got to give them the truth. Emily. Your thoughts.

Speaker 7 (25:09):
Absolutely, Allison. I think that Alex Clark is just so
so dynamics. You know, she's saying the things that a
lot of women in this country are thinking but aren't
brave enough to say themselves.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
So I think that she is an.

Speaker 7 (25:19):
Incredible voice, especially for moms with young children that want
to keep their kids healthy, that are checking the labels
for all of the ingredients, making sure that you know,
unhealthy chemicals, chemicals that could cause cancer under you know,
health conditions.

Speaker 8 (25:34):
This is a very new concept in America today.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
You know, Alex brought up that this is the sickest
generation of our kids. You know, so many different things
she explores on her podcast, just to challenge the mainstream
of medicine of health to really be redefining that. And
I think it's a very on brand for society today.
With RFK Junior HHS Secretary and his Make America Healthy

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Again movement gaining so much traction throughout society today, He's
already been implementing so many changes just in the first
few months of this Trump administration, Allison, and it's great
that Alex has been keeping a close eye on it
and bringing that information to American moms every day through
her podcast.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Absolutely, now we want to move on to the next speaker.
This is live on stage, Bethany Hamilton. She's a world
champion surfer, a best selling author, and a powerful voice
of faith and resilience. Let's tune in to her inspiring message.

(26:36):
Oh we don't have her yet, but Emily, you know
who Bethany is, right, this is a surfer.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
You know.

Speaker 8 (26:46):
If I'm I don't want to, I think I do.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
I'm very excited to listen from her. All of all
of the speakers that have been taking this stage have
been so dynamic in their own way, and they all
offer a unique perspective womanhood, what it means to be
a woman. And I think just the collective of all
of these voices and unique experiences is.

Speaker 8 (27:07):
So beneficial to all of the high school.

Speaker 7 (27:10):
College students, these young women that are here today, and just,
you know, like a sponge, you want to soak it
all in, soak up all of the experience and inspiration
and advice that these women have that are taking the
stage here.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Allison, Well, I do believe that we have the amazing
Bethany Hamilton now once again. She's a world champion surfer,
a best selling author, and a powerful voice of faith.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
Let's tune in to what he has to say.

Speaker 17 (27:38):
Is this what God calls on my life? Is society
and culture seeping into these areas that I'm finding myself
having challenge after challenge, and if so, redirecting myself to
the God given path that He will have from me
to trust in Him, to lean on him, to be

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relied on him.

Speaker 13 (28:01):
He calls us to be like a little baby.

Speaker 17 (28:04):
When you bring a baby into this world, you instantly
fall in love with that little human that you barely
even know, so much that you would die for them.
But if you don't show up for that baby, the
baby will not make it.

Speaker 12 (28:19):
The baby is.

Speaker 17 (28:20):
Completely reliant on her mama, and it's the most beautiful
feeling in the world.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
And what's so cool, though.

Speaker 17 (28:28):
Is that's how good it feels about each and every
one of you. He wants to be your father, and
he wants to bring you life, joy, hope, peace, regardless
of the chaos around you. He wants to set you
free from your mistakes or the mistakes of those around you.

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He wants you to be like that baby, solely reliant
on him. And I believe that when we are reliant
on God, that's when goodness flows. So I challenge each
and every one of you direct yourself, but more importantly,
allow God to direct you as we adopt who we
associate with. So you're here today at this amazing conference.

(29:12):
I'm sure you have some great friends, but honing in
on your community, your people who can bring the best
out of you, who can keep you, you know, making
good and beautiful decisions. I just found in my hardest
seasons of life, I need people around me, A community
that supports me and cheers me on, brings the best

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out of me and me for them as well.

Speaker 13 (29:34):
And so as we adopt who.

Speaker 17 (29:36):
We associate with next, perseverance. Much of my life has
had perseverance attached to it. I'm so glad that when
I was faced with the decision to get back in
the ocean and surface sharks and get back on my board,
and I don't know anyone who's served with one arm,

(29:57):
I'm so glad that I was willing to severe and
do something that I hadn't seen anyone else do, and
do something that most people believed wasn't possible. But I
was willing to put myself out there, challenge myself do
what was really uncomfortable like it didn't feel natural to

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paddle with one arm and then trying to pop up.

Speaker 13 (30:22):
And as that time.

Speaker 17 (30:24):
Came, like I was willing to, you know, get out
there and try and try again. And sometimes the ocean
would send me back to the beach and it would
be a tearful time. But I'm so glad that those
times that I did persevere pushed me to be my
best version of myself. So when you persevere, like, this

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is what the outcome can be. So we're going to
check out, go into my world a little bit.

Speaker 13 (30:50):
I'm kind of debated from.

Speaker 17 (30:52):
My normal sides, but let's check out on my persevering
video or like action surfing montage. Yeah, this first I
wanted to do a couple of strip trips to find
This was right after I had my first baby. Too.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
The more opportunity you have to perform and work on
your surfing. But are you good? She like buckle down
and trag.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Her butter, I go find.

Speaker 18 (32:29):
So so fine? You see, So.

Speaker 17 (33:17):
I like the idea of our actions speaking just as
loud as our words. And for me in my life,
like to get to that point, there was a lot
of blood, sweat and tears, fears, doubts. I truly had
to persevere to get to the goals and dreams and
desires that I had. And it took a support system.

(33:40):
It took adapting, it took persevering, It took trusting in
God and his plan for my life. And as I
started my talk out today, is like, this is not
the life that I had in mind for me, But
to trust that God's plan for our life is even better.
He calls us to look to his word to be

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the author and finisher of our faith, or look to
Him and his word, you know, to be the author
and finisher of our faith. And so I challenge you
to mentally prepare yourself. You will have to persevere through
challenges and to remember that you can adapt. And when
God is on your side, he will carry you through

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the ups and downs and the highs and the lows,
and He will take your life and make it that
much more beautiful. He will take your life and expound
a you know, a vital effect. And so by me
being my best version of myself and relying on.

Speaker 13 (34:42):
Him to carry me through.

Speaker 17 (34:46):
Everything that I face, that's when I am strong, and
that's when I'm beautiful, and that's when I am able
to keep going and to have a better outreach on
the world around me. And so finally, as we adopt,
we are teachable.

Speaker 13 (35:05):
So when you hit the wall, when you.

Speaker 17 (35:08):
Feel like you're at your like kind of breaking point,
to find someone to help you through it, to not
go through life alone, but to you know, find like
talk to your mom or dad or authority in your life,
an older figure who's been there, done that, been through
the hard seasons, who will bring the best out of you.

(35:30):
And I found that at a young age, like I
started to you know, get coaching and surfing, and I
knew that if I listened to my coach, I'm going.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
To get better at surfing.

Speaker 17 (35:40):
And so I started to take that into every aspect
of my life as I grew up.

Speaker 13 (35:44):
And that's how I was able.

Speaker 17 (35:45):
To you know, push it in my sport and surfing
and the many challenges in like the uncomfortable places that
I put myself. I really hated motivational speaking when I
first started. I would literally get on the stage and
like give one word answers to a live Q and A.
And it was so like nerve wracking for me, But
my heart wasn't in me. It was like I knew

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that by me showing up, it would be have an
impact on someone else, and so I turned that inward
fear into like, this is an outward gift to others.
And so as my little teenage self grew into a
young woman and now a mother of four, it's just
been like so cool to see how God has transformed

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that little Bethany into the mama, older and wiser Bethany.
And while I still have so much to learn and
grow in, I'm just so grateful that I was willing
to adapt. And so you know, when we adopt, we're
stronger and we're able to have that ripple effect on
the society around us. And so I challenge you women

(36:54):
to think about directing your life, like think about being
grateful each and every day to know that you're going
to have to persevere. Yeah, direction is to who you
associate with, Like, choose your future wisely so that you
can have the God given life that has for you.

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And remember that even then you still might have a
job sort of life. But the thing was Job was
relyingt on God. He was willing to trust in God
even when he lost everything. And so I hope that
you can choose to trust in God and let him
carry you like a little baby because he loves you

(37:40):
so much, and that you too can adapt. And so
I'm cheering all you ladies on in your life. I
hope that you can remember a few things from today
and carry on and enjoy the life that God has
for you. Like I absolutely, I'm just gonna rant now
a little bit on motherhood. Like my child join are

(38:00):
truly like my joy, and but they've challenged me in
so many ways that, like, you know, there's been seasons
where I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't wait to
go to bed, and then like at the same time,
I can't wait to wake up to you too, because
you're so sweet and beautiful. But like I like to
call this season of like two to four is like
the barbaric age, where like nothing makes sense and they

(38:23):
just act kind of crazy and you kind of have
to like be calm, cool and collected yourself so that
like they can like you know, look to mom and
she's not being barbaric alongside of them. But yeah, it's
just like now my oldest he's nine years old, he's
surfing him. Can you put a couple that pictures like

(38:43):
our family photo. Oh yeah, here's Honestipia.

Speaker 5 (38:47):
Rob she played me.

Speaker 17 (38:48):
She's super woke, but like it's fine.

Speaker 13 (38:53):
I still love her.

Speaker 17 (38:54):
I just like it's time of disappointing that, like our
views on the world are like completely opposite. I was
like successful, Susan, here's my family. Yeah, so my husband Adam,
to Bias, Leslie, Mike and Aaleia and maybe we'll have
some future babies. We're not sure yet, but yeah, it's

(39:16):
just like children are such a joy and they're the
truly the thing that like get me motivated to keep
going and showing up my best and adapting and just
knowing that like this is your future, like this could
be your future to have a purpose that's so beyond
getting up on this stage today, but like to raise

(39:38):
up the next generation of beautiful little humans who will
lead forth the next gen. And it's just such a gift.
So remember that you girls too. You can adapt and
overcome whatever it is that this life may throw your way,
and with God on your side, it's going to be
that much easier.

Speaker 13 (39:55):
So thank you God.

Speaker 11 (39:56):
Bless luck of them.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
Oh wow, Bethany Hamilton, Emily, I knew about her story
and the shark.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
But I had no idea.

Speaker 6 (40:15):
She was such a powerful speaker and her speech there
talking about adapt and how we're all going to have
difficult seasons in our lives and face difficult challenges, but
to be able to persevere and to turn to God
and to move forward. And then the second part of
what she was talking about is choosing very carefully the

(40:36):
people that you surround yourself with. We don't always think
about that, but their energies, their influence, it's so important, Emily, your.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
Thoughts absolutely, Allison, you know it's a little hard to hear.
You hear all of the young women that were just
there listening are now coming out of the out of
the conference room to participate in some of the other
things that turning point you USA has set up for
all of them here. I didn't have a chance to
listen in too intently to that speech. We had other

(41:06):
people coming up and sharing their experiences at the conference
with us here, So a lot of women have been
sharing with us that they're excited for the rest of
the speakers that are on the lineup. The one person
that seems to be garnering the most excitement, as Director
of National Intelligence, Tulci Gabbard. Everyone has been saying that
they can't wait to hear what she.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Has to say.

Speaker 7 (41:26):
I believe she is taking the stage tomorrow at this event,
so I hope that all of our viewers are tuning in.
We will certainly be giving young women some inspiring messages on.

Speaker 8 (41:36):
Our Real America's Voice airwaves.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Ellison, Oh, I.

Speaker 6 (41:40):
Know, it's probably crazy there because, as I said, I
have been to the event before, and so you're probably
set up right on that aisle where everybody is walking about.
But there's such like great energy with all the young women,
and so it's such a supportive atmosphere. And that's what
I experienced when I was there.

Speaker 5 (41:59):
I don't know about.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
You extraordinarily supportive atmosphere, you know. I think Allison, you
can probably speak to this as a woman. Sometimes women
there's a lot of competition between us. But when you
walk through the doors of this event, you feel like
you're with all of your best friends, you feel like
you're with people that have the same values as you.
Aren't going to judge you, are going to support you

(42:21):
and really challenge you to think about the role of
a woman in society differently. And I think that's what
we've been doing so far with this event here in Dallas.

Speaker 8 (42:31):
Allison, absolutely beautiful.

Speaker 6 (42:34):
Well, we're going to turn it over to Carolyn call
She's a certified nutritionist, an entrepreneur, and she's the founder
of just Ingredients.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
Let's go to the stage and listen.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
In one day, I remember sitting in a rocking chair. Oh,
I'm gonna cry, sitting in a rocking chair, and I
looked and my tunnel was black. There was no light,
and I thought, I can't do this the rest of
my life. There is no light at the end of
the tunnel. And so the depression got worse and worse,
and one day I thought, I'm done. I can't deal

(43:07):
with this. I've lost hope. There's no more hope. And
I actually attempted suicide on that day and tried to
take my life because I did not want to be
here anymore. And thankfully, by the grace of God, miracles happened.
During that act. Angels appeared from the other side, and
that failed, or that attempt failed. At that moment, I

(43:34):
realized that I hit rock bottom and I needed some
true help, and so I went searching for a doctor.
It took two and a half years to find a
doctor that could finally help me. But she taught me
that depression was a symptom, it was by body screaming
for help, and that depression could be due to a
lot of underlying root causes. And I feel like if

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people knew this today, that there is hope and healing
out there, we might not have the huge mental health
crisis that we do today. There are a lot of
different possible root causes for depression. And we did blood work,
in urine tests and saliva tests, and we found out
a lot of my issues from simple things like being
low on vitamin D to not being able to absorb

(44:16):
be vitamins SE, lacking in magnesiums magnesium, being low in
omega three is having high inflammation. I had cortisol issues,
I had hormonal issues. I had too much estrogen. I
had liver issues, I had food intolerances. Like the list
just goes on and on of things that was happening.

Speaker 5 (44:33):
In my body.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
And so of course my body was screaming for help
with depression, and so I went on a nutrition route
after working with this doctor for two and a half years,
because I never wanted to fall back into that depression again.
She had taught me how to fuel my body properly
so that it could do its best in return for me,
and I wanted to be able to learn how to

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always fuel my body properly, but also teach my kids
so that my kids would never have to face what
I faced, and so I went to Cornell to become
a nutritionist. I did a lot of studying and learning
of how to always fuel my body. Well about seven
years ago, I felt like everybody around me was dealing
with anxiety, depression, autoimmune issues, migraines, conic fatigue, conic joint.

Speaker 5 (45:20):
Pain, you name it.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
It was community members, extended family members, church members, and
I kept feeling this prompting from the spirit saying help them.
And I was like, I don't know how to help them,
and I'd hear it again, like help them. And I thought, well,
if I could go in their homes and teach them
how to cook nutritiously and how to grocery shop, that
could help them. And you can't go do that. So

(45:41):
I was like, you know what, I'll just make a
little Instagram account and try to give little tips on
how to help people. And if I get two thousand followers.
Then I've hit my goal and that's great. And so
I did this little Instagram account and for about eighteen
months got two thousand followers. And so at that point
I was like, Okay, this is really busy doing this

(46:02):
with six kids. I want to tell God that I've
followed that prompting that I had, but I'm going to
tell him now that I'm done. And so I went
in prayer and said, God, I just want to let
you know I hit my goal and I'm really busy
with six kids, and I think I'm going to stop posting,
and I just felt like, no, keep going. Well, about

(46:26):
three days later I went back to God and was like,
I don't think you heard my prayer. I'm going to
be done. I think I can be just better doing
other things with all my six kids at home. I
don't think this is the.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
Right path for me.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
And again I heard keep going. So a few days later,
the third time, I went back to him and said, Okay,
you really didn't hear me. Let me make it very clear.
I think I can use my time wisely and other things.
And at that point I heard him say do you
trust me? And I was like, yes, I do. So

(47:03):
I kept going and in one month's time I went
from two thousand followers to one hundred thousand followers. And
during that time, though, I came across some stats that
were similar to these, but these are now in twenty
twenty three, and it said twelve point eight million adults
had serious thoughts of suicide, three point seven million made

(47:24):
a plan, one point five million attempted suicide and suicide
remains the second leading cause of death for those ages
ten to fourteen and twenty to thirty four. And I
was like, this is not okay.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
And guess what happened.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
I felt the spirit tell me you need to tell
your story of depression. And I was like, Nope, not
doing that. No way, not doing it. Because when I
would ask for help for my depression, I was judged.
I was critique. People thought I was weak, people thought
it was made up, people didn't understand it. Nope, that's
too hard, God, I'm not doing that. I sat with

(48:00):
that for a few weeks and again I felt really prompted,
you need to tell your story again. That's too hard God,
Like I've already trusted the first one by posting, but
this one is too hard. You don't understand you remember
how terrible it was back in those days. The third time,

(48:23):
you need to tell your story. And again the third
time I heard, do you trust me? And again, yes,
I trust you. So I told my story. I don't
think I've ever been so nervous in my entire life
to tell at this point, like half a million people
that I had tried to take away my life. I
was afraid of what the comments would say and what

(48:46):
people would say. But I did it. And I had
this thought the whole time. Trust in the Lord with
all thine heart. We know this from Proverbs. And lean
not onto thy own understanding in all thy ways. Acknowledge Him,
and he shall direct thy paths. And I also had
this one. I tell my kids this one a lot,
and it rained true to me. Be strong and of

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good courage, Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. For
the Lord, thy God is with the whithersoever thou goest.
So I had to believe is this really true? Is
he going to help me? He did help me, And
by telling my depression story, many many people came out saying,
oh my goodness, thank you so much. I've been going

(49:29):
through this, or my daughter's going through this, or my son,
my daughter in law, or I've gone through this, or
please help me, what do we do? And so I
was able to teach how to help heal depression, and
I was able to teach people how to deal with
infertility and deal with all these health issues that are
out there. And because I trusted in him, he is

(49:50):
less just ingredients with so much. We have a podcast
that has over ten million downloads with top experts and
scientists and doctors out there trying to help people feel better.
We have an Instagram account with over a million followers
that are actively engaged trying to learn how to feel better.
We have over two hundred and fifty products that are
helping nourish people's body so that they can have the

(50:11):
health and energy and happiness in life to do the
things that God has called them here to do. And
so I think mental health is really important. I think
God has given us a purpose of being here on
this earth, but we have to take care of our
bodies so that we have that energy and that happiness
and that passion and to do the things that He's

(50:32):
called us here to do. And mental health is a
huge issue these days. And so these are just five
little things that maybe you can remember if you're dealing
with a loss of hope or sadness or unknown or
depression or anxiety or fear, any of those things. So
first is support your gut. So the gut and the

(50:54):
brain are connected as ned and in fact, this is interesting.
Ninety percent of the nerve fibers carry info from our
gut to our brain and only ten percent carry the
info from our brain to our gut, and so our
gut is really important. Also, ninety percent of our body serotonin,
the feel good hormone, is created in the gut. A

(51:16):
lot of people deal with leaky gut, which can contribute
to inflammation. Inflammation is a root cause of depression and anxiety.
And so if you want to know if you have
maybe leaky gut or issues, basically if your stomach hurts
after you eat, or you're bloated, or you have a
lot of sugar creatings or feel tired after you eat,

(51:36):
these are some of the things that can say maybe
look at your gut a little bit more. Another thing,
as we all know, eat nourishing foods. But what I
didn't realize at the time when I was dealing with
depression is that the nutrients fuel our brain. It fuels
how we feel. For instance, omega threes are needed to
create hormones. If you're low in omega threes, you may

(51:58):
be struggling with some hormonal issues. You could be dealing
with inflammation. Omega threes help lower that inflammation. B Vitamins
are crucial for feeling good mentally. Over two thirds of
people that deal with depression actually suffer with deficiencies and
be vitamins. I mean, magnesium is amazing for the nervous
system and relaxing that nervous system when we're always stressed

(52:20):
and go, go go. So God gave us foods to
nourish and heal our body. Man put the artificial things
out there that do not nourish our bodies, and so
the artificial ingredients just are not helping us nourish our bodies.
But like I said, God put amazing foods on this earth.
So like, think about your gut. We need to feed
our gut good things to feed those good bacterias. He

(52:43):
did that with fiber. Fiber feeds the good bacteria. Think
of all the plants and veggies and fruits and beans
and things that He's given us in nature that have
that fiber in it to feel the good bacteria. Fermented
foods do that as well. Guess what doesn't Guess what
feeds the bad bacteria. It's the sugars, the sugars that
are in so many of our artificial foods. And again,

(53:05):
another easy thing to help nourish our body is just
to try to keep a good blood glucose level all
day long, rather than these constant spikes of up and down,
up and down that actually can cause a lot of
different hormonal issues. Another thing I love to talk to
girls about is balancing their hormones with beauty products. So
women are full of hormones, which are chemical messengers. They're

(53:29):
just going to the cells to go tell the cells
what to do. We have skin cells, hair cells, heart cells,
We've got all sorts of cells, and all these cells
have receptors on them, and the hormones come and connect
onto those receptors to tell the cell what to do.
But we have these beauty products that have things that
I'm called endocrine disruptors, which you probably know. And these

(53:50):
endoprint disruptors are found in the fragrance of that like
blossom cherry lotion from bath and body works. You know
that can smell like cherry for five years. It's because
of the preservatives that are in there in the ballets,
and those things act like the endocrin destructors mimic your

(54:11):
own hormones, and so these cells that have receptors. Instead
of the hormones connecting onto the cells to tell the
cells where to go and what to do, these fake,
these fake hormones connect onto the cells and so the
cells are confused as to where to go. And this
is causing so many issues for people with infertility, with
mood swings, with terrible pms, heaving, bleeding, all these terrible

(54:35):
thing or hard things that women have to deal with.
And so getting rid of those endocin destructors is amazing.
And if you think about it, girls, think about how
many products you use in a day. Because you might
be like, oh, it's just a little bit in the lotion,
but I don't know about you, But me and my daughter,
we're using shampoo, condition or body wash. Get out of

(54:56):
the shower, and it's lotion and deodorant and makeup and
perfume and all the things. So it all adds up.
The next thing is just managing your stress. Number four
manage your stress. We all have stress and that's just
because it's life, and life is crazy and busy, but
we can manage it. And so some great things to
help you just manage it are moving your body. Breathing

(55:20):
can actually instantaneous, instantaneously bring down that anxiety or even depression.
Things like that. Grounding is a great way just to
calm the nervous system or I also love adaptagens. Adaptagens
are herbs that God put on this planet that help
our body actually deal with the stress. And number five

(55:42):
would just be to prioritize sleep and exercise. Exercise, to me,
is the greatest antidepressant out there. Sleep also supports the
brain function during sleep, that's where we detox a lot
of things, and sometimes it's the toxins causing issues in
our body. But your brain clears out, you store memories,

(56:02):
you restore focus and decision making ability. It also helps
regulate your emotion, so quality sleep can really help you
feel good mentally, which I know is so hard as
a new mom. So the only time you don't get
to really prioritize this, in my book is when you're
a new mom, because we're just surviving. But it also

(56:22):
sleep can really help balance your hormones as well. And
so I just really believe that God gave us a
miraculous body, and he gave it to us to do
the things that we are meant to do here on
this earth. But we also were given the responsibility to
take care of our body. Our body wants to do

(56:44):
its best, but we've got to fuel it properly so
it can do its best. And I believe that prioritizing
your mental health is one of your greatest strengths as
a leader, because, like I said earlier, we need to
feel full of energy and passion and happy to fulfill
what you've been called here to do. When I was
dealing with that depression years ago, there's no way I

(57:06):
could done good for my community. It was hard even
to do good for my family, let alone the community
or church members or anything like that because I was
in survival mode. I was just trying to live. And
so do those things fuel your body properly so you can.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
Have that energy, but also have the energy.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
To trust, because that's what's hard in life right now,
is trusting that God will lead you on a path
that he wants you to.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
Eighteen years ago, dealing with depression.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
I would never have thought that I was dealing with
that to be here today. For many, many years after
that depression, I always wondered why he saved my life.
I was like, why me? There's so many others that
hasn't happened to but why? And I felt guilty for
years and years, and then I realized, you know what,
He's given me a second chance of life. I've got

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to make the most of it every day. So, like
I said eighteen years ago, I never think that I'd
be here on the stage talking about this. But I
know that God knows what he's doing and that he
is helping us in our life on a daily basis.
And this has been my motto for the last fifteen years.
Be strong and of good courage, Be not afraid, neither

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be thou dismayed. For the Lord, thy God is with
thee whithersoever thou goest. And again, that can be health related.
It can be with your business, it can be with
your relationships, it can be as being a mom. It
can be with whatever struggle you are dealing with. He
is going to be there with you and help you
make the most of your life. Thank you.

Speaker 14 (58:54):
I had no idea as sunscreen was so controversial, and
honestly neither did primly.

Speaker 6 (59:00):
So many interesting things that she had to say about
hormones and women.

Speaker 5 (59:06):
And how they react. And first I have to introduce.
Look who's back. It is a great weyback.

Speaker 6 (59:12):
We weren't chatting too much, I'm sorry during the speech,
but I did. I did listen to a lot of it.
Michelle Bacchus is here today. Thank you so much, sweetheart.
Oh it's har great to be with you. The Blondes
are back. We also have Emily Live on.

Speaker 19 (59:26):
Set as well, over holding down the floor at the.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
Event, which is just so exciting. You know, this is
such an empowering event.

Speaker 19 (59:33):
And I think you really saw this in the past election.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Maha, the MAHA.

Speaker 19 (59:37):
Movement has been such a big push and you look
at who joined that, and it is moms, moms that
wanted a safer, better future for their kids, right. And
you know, it's funny to think years ago, and guys,
I'm sure you've done the same thing. Do you remember
those bath and body works lotions with all of the
sense and the chemicals that were just layering onto our bodies,

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and how.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
Toxic that actually is.

Speaker 6 (59:59):
Oh yeah, And what Carolyn was talking about was a
lot of the hormones.

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
And Emily, I want you to jump in on.

Speaker 6 (01:00:06):
This because we talk a lot about the pill, okay,
and the effects of the pill over the years, and
that's something that's been a bit controversial, is coming to
light the effects that it's had on women now trying
to get pregnant or in other areas of their lives.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
Emily, I'd love for you to weigh in on that
if you could. If you could hear it, yeah, yeah,
I can.

Speaker 7 (01:00:32):
It's pretty hard to hear you, guys. I hear that
Michelle Bechus.

Speaker 8 (01:00:35):
Has joined our coverage.

Speaker 4 (01:00:37):
That's fantastic, guy.

Speaker 12 (01:00:38):
I wish I would have.

Speaker 8 (01:00:39):
Known that you would have got in studio in West
Palm Beach.

Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Michelle.

Speaker 7 (01:00:43):
I definitely miss being on air with you. Fantastic to
have you back with us.

Speaker 12 (01:00:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:00:47):
I think you know, hormones, birth control, that has been
a big focus here for the young women. That is
something that has been pushed on young women in society today.

Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
You got to be pretty brave to go against the
narrative on that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:59):
But I think Carolyn Call and Alex Clark as well
bring up a lot of healthy.

Speaker 8 (01:01:03):
Conversations to challenge.

Speaker 7 (01:01:06):
I don't think that healthcare and medicine today has really
taken women's concerns, especially young women's concerns in terms of
birth control, in terms of pregnancy, fertility. It really is
so far behind archaic in a way. I think that
it's great to be having these conversations and going back
to our conversation earlier Allison about h just Secretary RFK

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Junior in the Make America Healthy Again movement. I think
that is definitely inspired, at least at this event at
Turning Point, USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit, to have different
conversations and welcome alternative options when it comes to healthcare
for women Michelle and Allison.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
I'm just like, thank God, we're having some truth here.
I appreciate about that. It's about time.

Speaker 19 (01:01:48):
I know that we do have another speaker on stage there,
Amanda McKinney. But I do want to add, remember when
we were younger girls and you would go to the
doctor's office to complain about something, doctors were immediately pushing
birth control onto I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
I was off at it, I believe at.

Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
Thirteen one hundred by at you because they would say
if you had any type of irregular period. Yes, they
immediately put you on birth control. And then you were
on birth.

Speaker 19 (01:02:13):
And Alison, why does the thirteen year old need to
be on birth control?

Speaker 6 (01:02:15):
No reason whatsoever, And now we're seeing the effects. But
we have another great speaker. Let's tune into Amanda McKinney.
She's a bold voice for conservative values. She is on
the stage right now.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
At a diaper.

Speaker 5 (01:02:27):
It's a lot to explain.

Speaker 20 (01:02:28):
I won't go into it right now, but he's definitely
holding down the ford. So for a bit of background,
you saw some videos. I am a very proud wife
to my husband, and I love my children, and I've
had a.

Speaker 21 (01:02:39):
Very successful business career and recently was elected about five.

Speaker 20 (01:02:43):
Years ago to service county commissioners.

Speaker 5 (01:02:45):
So how do you do all of those things?

Speaker 20 (01:02:47):
I think it's important to live by a couple of values,
and the ones that are important to me are intention, initiative,
and discipline.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
So you can make.

Speaker 21 (01:02:57):
As Charlie said, your number one priority.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
To find a husband.

Speaker 20 (01:03:01):
Okay, but that's Charlie's macro explanation.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
We're women, we're micro.

Speaker 20 (01:03:06):
So I'm going to give you a hint and a
little secret. You can prioritize finding a husband and still
follow your heart and use your God given talents and
have a career or follow a mission, whatever it is
that drives you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:20):
So you're not going to find your husband sitting on a.

Speaker 20 (01:03:23):
Corner of coffee shop every day waiting for him to
walk by.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:03:27):
Also, the person who sees you at the coffee shop
on a Tuesday at eleven doesn't have a job.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
You don't want that person, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
So you have to follow your dreams, knowing.

Speaker 20 (01:03:40):
That your dreams are going to take you to the
man of your dreams.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
So I want to tell you how I met my husband.

Speaker 20 (01:03:46):
So I was a successful mortgage broker. I had already
owned several pieces of real estate and have my own company,
and it was important to me. A value that I
was raised in was community service.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
So I was involved in the local service.

Speaker 20 (01:04:02):
Club and at one of these meetings, a new person
was introduced and it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:09):
Was like the movies.

Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
We were introduced.

Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
We locked eyes, we shook hands, it was lightning.

Speaker 20 (01:04:15):
We literally shocked each other okay, and I went, whoa
who is this?

Speaker 4 (01:04:20):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:04:21):
Now we didn't actually start dating right away.

Speaker 21 (01:04:23):
We became friends which is really important too.

Speaker 20 (01:04:27):
But what was important is that I knew when we
started dating it.

Speaker 21 (01:04:30):
Was always going to be serious because we.

Speaker 20 (01:04:32):
Were dating for our future and we were going to
have a life that was built around our shared values,
faith and community service. And so what we do is
we set out and we live very intentionally. So we're
very busy, both of us with our careers following our faith,
but we live it out by attending Mass.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Our children go to Catholic school.

Speaker 20 (01:04:53):
When my daughter now is at University of Arizona, that's
why she's so tan everyone.

Speaker 5 (01:04:59):
But we made.

Speaker 20 (01:05:00):
Sure that we raise our children our home where faith
and service were important. And so some of the things
that we would do is actually take them with us
when we would do.

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Service to the community.

Speaker 20 (01:05:10):
So we would build several playgrounds, and you know a
lot of times there were playgrounds that my children wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
Necessarily go to play with, they.

Speaker 20 (01:05:17):
Weren't in our neighborhood, but teaching them how great it
was to build something with their own two hands, to
give up our Saturday and to go and do this,
and then to know that other children were going to
be able to use those playgrounds, and it was really
an active service and they saw our relationships strengthened.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
To be able to see their parents being able.

Speaker 20 (01:05:37):
To do something for the community and take pride in it,
so wonderful lesson. So acts of service are really important,
and so when you do them as a couple and
you bring your kids along with you, they see you
doing it and I think it's had a lasting impact
on them. Another thing that we do to make sure
that we're very intentional is making sure that we're prioritizing

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our time with discipline. So a lot of folks have
the rule at the dinner table who has to put
their phone away certain times a night dinner. Right, it's
a little annoying. I get it, and sometimes there are exceptions.
But the reason why it's important and we do.

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
This is because we are so busy.

Speaker 20 (01:06:16):
It's really important to David and I that our children
know that when we're at the meal table and we're
sitting down and sharing a meal, that they are.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
A private priority.

Speaker 20 (01:06:24):
That we are here to prioritize family time together. And
we have a tradition that I'd love to share with you,
and I love doing new traditions. So introducing something so
if someone does something that you really love grab it.
You don't have to invent your own.

Speaker 21 (01:06:39):
This is something that I came up with many years ago, and.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
It's called the question box.

Speaker 20 (01:06:43):
Okay, it's a little black box sits on the table.
We pull it out at dinner time. Dinner time, and
we take turns each night. But you pull a question
out and it's a question and everyone at.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
The table gets to answer the question.

Speaker 20 (01:06:57):
Now, it's a phenomenal way to get to know your
family members, because how much do you really know your
siblings or your parents? Do you really know the dreams
and aspirations of your parents? Do you know their phobia?

Speaker 5 (01:07:10):
So a lot of the questions are really unsightful.

Speaker 20 (01:07:12):
You know what scares you the most and why.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
Some of them are really funny.

Speaker 20 (01:07:17):
If you could design an animal, what would it look
like and what magical powers could it have?

Speaker 21 (01:07:23):
Believe me, my son loves answering questions like those.

Speaker 5 (01:07:26):
But they really do help.

Speaker 20 (01:07:27):
You get to know your family better, and I think
that helps strengthen our family BoNT we know more about
each other. Another thing that is critically important is always
always we pray at meal times and bedtime, setting up
that bedtime tradition where with your children and we do
bedtime prayers and thankfuls, so everyone has to share thankful
before they go to bed at night, because the last

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thing I want them to think about before they go
to bed is what they're thankful for that God gave
them that day. So a great way to end your day. Oh,
I have to talk about the Summer Fun Bucket too,
so Kaitlin. I started this when Kaitlyn was younger, but
because I'm very busy, I want to make sure that

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there's certain things that they look forward to. I look
forward to seeing them every day, and if I go
on a trip and come home, I'm so excited to
see them when I come back. So I came up
with the idea of the Summer Fun Bucket, which is
on the last the morning, early morning, the last.

Speaker 5 (01:08:25):
Day of school.

Speaker 20 (01:08:26):
They have a bucket full of all the things that
you need to have a successful summer as a child. Okay,
lots of s'mores, lots of liquorice, lots of water balloons.
Sometimes it's a ninja creamy, but we do lots of fun.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
Things to make sure that they have something to look
forward to.

Speaker 20 (01:08:44):
And I think it's really exciting and I know that
Caitlyn has said that she's really looking forward to having
the Summer Fun bucket for her kids when she grows up.

Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
Next, I wanted to kind.

Speaker 20 (01:08:53):
Of pivot a little bit to leadership, and leadership is
really critical, and again that's why it's so important for
you to follow your dreams because through your service, acts
of service to others, through being in the business community,
through learning how to run a business or how to
help someone else's business be successful, you are proving to

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your future spouse that you will make a good partner.
They want to have someone who they know they can
rely on to be reliable at home with the family,
that you know how to make things happen, that you're
going to be able to take care of things and
manage things.

Speaker 5 (01:09:29):
Manage a budget, manage all of those things. So when
you have leadership, though, it's important that you have initiative.

Speaker 21 (01:09:37):
So each of you took initiative to be here today, right.

Speaker 20 (01:09:40):
You thought about it and it was something you wanted
to do, and you decided, you know what, when other
people aren't going to do it, I'm going to make
a decision and I'm going to make a sacrifice. I'm
going to spend my money on my time, and I'm
going to come here because it's important to me to
come and listen to what they're going to say.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
I'm going to learn from this. So you took an initiative.

Speaker 20 (01:10:00):
So when I decided to become commissioner, I will say
that it was something where I was just going to
be a county commissioner because I thought I needed in
the community.

Speaker 5 (01:10:08):
To have more business acumen at the county level.

Speaker 20 (01:10:11):
I don't even know if any of you know who
your county commissioner is. They call them supervisors county judges, but.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
They're really important.

Speaker 20 (01:10:17):
And I will tell you the number one thing that
people care.

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
About is roads. Roads roads.

Speaker 16 (01:10:23):
They're too dusty, they have potholes, all the things right.

Speaker 21 (01:10:26):
There's a lot more that goes into it.

Speaker 20 (01:10:28):
But I would encourage you to look in to see
who your local electeds are because they actually.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
Need to hear from you. So taking initiative is important.

Speaker 20 (01:10:36):
But what I want to leave you with on leadership
is that it's not enough just to have an initiative.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
You actually have to have planning.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
Right.

Speaker 20 (01:10:44):
So, my dad's a federal licensed firearms dealer, and.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
So I'm going to use a gun analogy here and.

Speaker 20 (01:10:50):
It's ready aim fire, Okay, very important.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
You're not going to hit it if you're not prepared
and you're not aiming. Okay. So I'm going to tell
a little story that happened in our town and it
has to do with COVID. Okay, So that was.

Speaker 21 (01:11:05):
A horrible experience for all of us.

Speaker 20 (01:11:07):
But I was actually in a leadership role in our
community during COVID, and a lot of people were looking at.

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
Me for leadership. How are we going to get out
of this situation? And in Washington.

Speaker 20 (01:11:18):
State, I will simply say we were in lockdown.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:11:24):
We were put in regions and we were given certain
metrics that we had to meet in order to.

Speaker 4 (01:11:31):
Have our own freedom back.

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
So to describe this to you, we were.

Speaker 20 (01:11:34):
Not allowed to have anyone over to our own home
if they didn't live.

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
In our home.

Speaker 20 (01:11:40):
Can you imagine not having your kids see your grandparents,
not even being able to have them come over for
fear that you were going to get turned in. Our children,
we had to make sure that we attested to.

Speaker 5 (01:11:52):
Their health and well being every day.

Speaker 20 (01:11:54):
When they finally went back to school, they had to
have temperature checks at drop off, they had to wear
masks at all time. And I will tell you Duke
was six at the time, and he came home one
day and he said, Mama, if this mask is going
to keep me from getting COVID, why do I get
to take it off twice a day.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
Sitting in class? Smart kid? But what I will say
is that it was it was the Hunger Games. It
was absolutely the Hunger Games.

Speaker 20 (01:12:21):
And we wanted to get out of lockdowns really bad.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
And it was all about our hospital metrics. So I
will tell you that I did not have faith.

Speaker 21 (01:12:29):
That the people who were in charge were going to
keep accurate information.

Speaker 20 (01:12:33):
So I wanted to be prepared. I wanted to be ready.
So I made sure to independently.

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
Verify and gather all of the data that was going to.

Speaker 20 (01:12:41):
Be used for us to be able to get our
freedom back.

Speaker 21 (01:12:45):
And the day came when our governor was going to make.

Speaker 20 (01:12:48):
An announcement and he was going to say who got
to have their freedom back? And I was very confident
because I knew what the data was. We were going
to make it because I was prepared.

Speaker 5 (01:12:57):
I was ready.

Speaker 20 (01:12:58):
And he goes on live television and he has a
press conference and he says everybody in Washington State is
moving out of their homes.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
Back to restaurants.

Speaker 4 (01:13:08):
Except our region. We didn't make it.

Speaker 20 (01:13:12):
And they flashed the numbers up on the screen, and
they were wrong, and not just a little wrong, really wrong,
like anyone who was paying attention could tell they were wrong,
which I was paying attention, so I was ready. Now
I had to aim. So it was immediately going out
to all the different hospitals, using my peer commissioners that

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I built relationships with, and being able to get that
information to the state Health Department and the governor and say, listen,
I'm sure that you didn't mean to, but this was
a mistake, and here's all the data to prove it,
and we deserve to move out of our homes.

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
And our governor.

Speaker 20 (01:13:53):
Said, you know, our state Health Department is so busy
addressing COVID that this is correct the data you provided,
but we don't.

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
Have time to fix it.

Speaker 20 (01:14:03):
It would be too difficult for the State Health Department
to update the website, and so you could just sit
and wait two more weeks to see whether or not
you meet.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
The next time two weeks. How many people are depending
upon this decision?

Speaker 20 (01:14:19):
A million people, A million people not able to leave
their homes or have their.

Speaker 5 (01:14:24):
Parents or family over to their own home.

Speaker 20 (01:14:28):
That wasn't good enough. So I aimed and then I fired.
So I went straight to every person in the political
party that he is in and gave them the data
and said, if this was your community, would you want
to get out?

Speaker 5 (01:14:44):
Wouldn't you want that?

Speaker 20 (01:14:45):
Would you fight for this for your own community?

Speaker 21 (01:14:47):
And I went to the media, And what ended up happening.

Speaker 20 (01:14:50):
Is that there was so much pressure publicly to simply
correct the data. On Valentine's Day weekend, there was a
tweet and a million people in central Washington State got
the good news that they were able to go out
to a restaurant again, take their husband out. Right, that's

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the ready aim fire. Now, if I hadn't been prepared,
I hadn't taken the initiative to be prepared, I would
never have.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
Been able to so quickly move and.

Speaker 20 (01:15:22):
We would have been stuck for two more weeks, which
was not going to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:15:26):
We needed to be able to get out. We deserved it.

Speaker 20 (01:15:30):
So tying that into why is a county commissioner up here?
I would say that your issues your local issues, there
are national issues.

Speaker 5 (01:15:40):
You hear our president talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
It all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
Immigration that is huge right now. And you know what,
I bet you're huge in your community too.

Speaker 20 (01:15:50):
Most of you know it, and we are here to
make sure as local representatives that you have a voice.

Speaker 5 (01:15:56):
So if you're curious about how your.

Speaker 20 (01:15:59):
Local government went, I think it's really important.

Speaker 5 (01:16:01):
For you to ask and go ask questions.

Speaker 21 (01:16:05):
Because people in my position need to hear from you.

Speaker 20 (01:16:07):
Do you know who we hear from. We hear from
retired folks a lot. We hear from business owners a lot,
someone who's impacted some way. Do you know who we
don't hear from you? But don't hear from you? We exist,
you exist. Find out who your local representative is and

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make sure that they hear your voice.

Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
Because your voice does matter. And that's why I.

Speaker 20 (01:16:33):
Think it's so important for this summit, because it isn't
just about finding your voice and finding a husband.

Speaker 21 (01:16:40):
You really are going to change our future.

Speaker 20 (01:16:43):
In America and that is on you, and it's about
using your voice, and God gave you that voice to
do so.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
So.

Speaker 20 (01:16:53):
Because I know there's a lot of scripture that's being quoted,
but I am actually I'm a Deborah by the way,
and Winston Churchill is my favorite go to so I'm
going to read you my favorite Winston Churchill. We shall
not fail or falter, we shall not weaken or tire.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
Give us the tools and we'll finish a job. Right,
you have the tools.

Speaker 20 (01:17:21):
And yes, Charlie, they are going to find husbands, but
they are also going to light a fire, charge.

Speaker 21 (01:17:29):
Their own path.

Speaker 5 (01:17:31):
And you will be able to do those things.

Speaker 20 (01:17:33):
And it is in doing those things that light your
fire that you will find your perfect match. And I
know that you can. I want to again thank my
daughter for being here with me today. We experienced COVID too,
we as eleopids, had children in these situations.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
It was heartbreaking. Moms, raise your hands.

Speaker 20 (01:17:59):
It was absolutely bananas, wasn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
First of all, I knew how to work from.

Speaker 20 (01:18:06):
Home and I had done it before, but not with
someone running around in his underpants, which was Duke, not
my husband, and having everyone on.

Speaker 5 (01:18:16):
Top of you, right, the chaos of it.

Speaker 20 (01:18:19):
All, and trying to live in that situation. But I
love the enormous amount of grace in your generation that
I have seen, because even though there are certain things
that you experienced, you might be a little angry about
You've handled it with so much grace. You really have

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so much so that you have hope and optimism, and
you're here to learn how you can be a fire
in your own community and beyond. I want to also
thank then Turning Point for creating an atmosphere where each
of you can come here and learn.

Speaker 5 (01:18:55):
So for any of you, I'm going to be here
the rest of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
If there are.

Speaker 20 (01:18:59):
Things that you want to add, ask someone who has
done it all, I would be more than happy to
answer those questions for you. And I also know that
whomever is your local elected back at home would love
for you to ask them that same thing. How do
you manage being married, having children, dogs with combs on
their heads, and showing up to public press conferences and

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being able to juggle all of it because they would
love to share all their best practices with you.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
But remember it's initiative.

Speaker 20 (01:19:31):
You have to have intention, and you have to be
very disciplined with your time and set boundaries and make
sure if you're going to fire, it's ready aim fire.

Speaker 9 (01:19:42):
Thank you everybody well.

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
Terrific remarks on Amanda McKinney. Those were really more practical
remarks about how to really about your life as young women.

Speaker 19 (01:20:02):
Yeah, and if you think about it, women are juggling
a lot of different things. I hear this a lot
from newer moms as well. How do you raise the
family and if you want a career, how do you
pursue that? How do you balance it all? And then
as well, keep time for yourselves. I feel like so
often Emily, especially mothers don't take the time for themselves
because they're so focused.

Speaker 5 (01:20:22):
On everyone else.

Speaker 19 (01:20:23):
I'll say it all the time, moms have the hardest
job in the world.

Speaker 8 (01:20:29):
I am so sorry you guys.

Speaker 7 (01:20:30):
I'm having such a hard time hearing you there in
the studio. But Amanda McKinney had a lot of inspiring
messages when it comes to young women asking questions, right,
you know, she was talking about those COVID lockdowns, how
her county was one of the only ones lockdown for
as long as it was, and so not just young women,
all people, all young people should be asking questions and

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not just taking things at face value. And I think
that is really really good advice for all of the
high school students, collegeudents, young women that are here at
this event.

Speaker 8 (01:21:03):
Definitely continue to ask those questions.

Speaker 7 (01:21:06):
You know, Allison, you brought up earlier the birth control debate,
and so much information has been coming out lately about
how that is unhealthy for young women. You know, I
was really really lucky that I had parents that definitely
inspired me to ask those questions. I have never been
on birth control in my entire life, and I'm so
happy that in my individual world that I was empowered

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to be able to make that decision for myself. But
here at this event, not everyone has a family who
is able to be that supportive of you. So the
family becomes this community. It becomes the people that are
having the conversations about conservative values, having conversations about your health,
having conversations about asking questions and challenging society and challenging
the mainstream. Really helpful and really inspiring to see here

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in Dallas Alison and Michelle.

Speaker 6 (01:21:54):
Absolutely inspiring that next generation of critical thinkers hopefully, and what.

Speaker 19 (01:22:00):
A beautiful country that we are able to question things
and challenge things.

Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
As I see all the protesters.

Speaker 19 (01:22:06):
Outside right now on No King's Day for instance, just
remember we are living in the best country in the world.

Speaker 6 (01:22:13):
We're having a little respite here on the couch and
in Texas well. Our next speaker on stage is Hope
Harvdree's the founder of Hope Beauty, a former White House
staffer and a passionate voice for faith, femininity, and freedom.

Speaker 5 (01:22:28):
Let's tune into her message. Here's about your goals. And
he is a promise.

Speaker 22 (01:22:32):
Keeper, and he gives us dreams and desires in our
hearts so that he can fulfill them. And this is
just proof of his goodness and is left to meet.
So got down out of the way.

Speaker 11 (01:22:42):
So y'all saw.

Speaker 22 (01:22:43):
I have a makeup line. It's called Hope Beauty and
all of the products are inspired by women of the Bible. Now,
I did not plan in my life to go into
the beauty industry at all. I was planning actually to
be the White House Press Secretary for my entire life.
And I actually worried at the White House for two years,
and then when the President lost the White House, i

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also lost my job because that's how that works. So
if a president loses the election, everybody in the White
House gets kicked out. So I started my career in
the West Wing of the White House. I worked in
the Office of Communications and then the Office of Legislative Affairs.
But then I moved home to South Carolina, and I
was distraught. I cried all the time I moved in
with my parents, and there was one night where I

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cried really hard. Y'all know those nights where you're just
like you just can't stop.

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
And you're just praying and praying and praying.

Speaker 22 (01:23:34):
And I finally stopped and I said, God, I know
you have a purpose for me, and I prayed that
you show me what it is and if I can ask,
I hope that it's something that I can change culture
and impact the kingdom. And the next morning I woke
up and sat up straight in bed whoopsie, and said,

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I'm going to start and makeup line inspired by women
of the bind Ball.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
And that's another answer to prayer. If you ever want
God to answer a prayer.

Speaker 22 (01:24:02):
Really quickly, you just say, God, can you show me
how I can serve you? And also, God, if he's
not the one, will you please remove them from my life?

Speaker 5 (01:24:09):
Those two prayers. God is like, I'm on it, you
got it.

Speaker 22 (01:24:12):
I will always answer those prayers for you. So I
called a friend and she connected me with a manufacturer
and I just went to town on this new dream that
God had put on my heart. And I had seen
already through you know, just going to shop at so
Flora or Alta or a department store, that the makeup

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was lacking the truth of what really is beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:24:37):
You know.

Speaker 22 (01:24:38):
The names are things like and I hope I don't
get bleaked out for saying this, but orgasm better than sex.
There was a lipstick called something like celebriutard, which is
a mix of retard and celebrity.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
Like, we don't say that word.

Speaker 22 (01:24:51):
We would never write those words on a T shirt
and wear it. Right, we have white Bible verses on
a T shirt and wear that because that's encouraging and
it's beautiful and kind.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
I saw that there was just a lack of truth.

Speaker 22 (01:25:04):
In the beauty industry, and that this is what young girls,
this is what women were going in being told is
what is most beautiful about them? And that just simply
isn't true. And I started thinking, like, who is beautiful?
What does God say is beauty? And He found the
women of the Bible extremely beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:25:22):
He talked about it all the time.

Speaker 22 (01:25:23):
He called Sarah Tobe and Hebrew, which means like exceedingly.

Speaker 5 (01:25:28):
Beautiful, smoke and hot woman. Of God. That's what he
called Sarah.

Speaker 22 (01:25:32):
We all know that Esther went through beauty treatments for
eighteen months before she went to go meet the King,
and then Ruth Naomi told Ruth before she went to
go meet Boaz to wash dress and put on your perfume.
And so she knew that when they all knew that
when they were going out to meet people, that yes,

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they were going to be physically beautiful and physically captivating
and that was important. That's why Ruth told Naomi, go
you get dressed, girl, you're going to meet your husband.
And then that's why Esther also did eighteen months of
beauty treatment. So if you ever want to be like
prepared for the next stage of life, like maybe we
should all just go to a spa for eighteen months
and there God will prepare us for.

Speaker 5 (01:26:14):
Our next phase of life and we'll all be royalty.

Speaker 22 (01:26:17):
So any who God finds beauty important. And I think
that there was a disconnect at some point in the
world between what the world said was beautiful, which was
over sexualized and vain.

Speaker 5 (01:26:34):
It was shallow. It didn't include everything about a woman
that was beautiful.

Speaker 22 (01:26:38):
It was just her appearance, is what is beauty to
the world. So then the church completely overcorrected and instead
of instead of telling women that yes, God did make
them in his image, which I'm going to talk about
in a second, and they are beautiful inside too, they
just said, Nope, your appearance doesn't act matter. Oh God, y'all,

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my hair is looking crazy in this head band. Let
me fix that really fast, instead of saying to women
and girls that their appearance does matter to God, because
I mean, if our parents didn't matter to God, why
would he make us with a physical body, right, he
made us in his image. So the church really really
did women a grave in justice by telling girls and

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women that their appearance doesn't matter, because it does matter.

Speaker 5 (01:27:27):
It matters to God.

Speaker 22 (01:27:28):
God said in Song of Solomon that you are all together,
lovely and without flaw.

Speaker 5 (01:27:33):
He knows that you were beautiful when he made you
in his image.

Speaker 22 (01:27:36):
And so when the Church did this, it kind of
left a hole in a lot of our hearts, like
does it matter what.

Speaker 5 (01:27:41):
We look like? Can we get up and get dressed?

Speaker 22 (01:27:43):
Peter said that we're not supposed to let our beauty
come from outward adornments, but he didn't ban that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:50):
He didn't say.

Speaker 22 (01:27:51):
You can't wear gold jewelry, and you can't fix your
hair or wear a dress that you actually like. No,
he said, that's not where your beauty comes from. So
where does it come from? It comes from God. Because
God is beauty. He is beauty itself. He created beauty.
And we would never look at the world around us today,

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go outside and look at a flower, or look at
the sky, or look at a friend and say, oh,
her beauty doesn't matter, like God didn't actually care about that.
Like how vain to think that you know, the world
is beautiful. Yes, we have a longing for heaven, but
we also have a longing and to appreciate beauty and
to be appreciated for our beauty.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
And that comes from God.

Speaker 22 (01:28:35):
Because God appreciates beauty and he wants to be appreciated
for his beauty. That's why the psalms are so full
of people just praising God for his creation and for
his works. And so I wanted girls to know every
day as they get ready, that they are yes created
in the image of God, and that they can put

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on makeup as an extra accessory, no different than nail
which is totally unnecessary, just fun, or a fancy dress
or blue shoes with a bow on it, because it
makes us feel beautiful and girly and God delights in that.
Have y'all seen that thing on Instagram lately where girls are.

Speaker 5 (01:29:13):
Saying that God is such a girl dad.

Speaker 22 (01:29:15):
God gets our hearts speaking of God as a girl dad.
It was always so hard for me as a girl
to relate to the idea that I was made and
the image of God. Did y'all struggle with that too? Ever,
Like when you think about God as your father and
then Jesus as a man, you're like, well, like, I

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don't really look like my father, and I'm kind of
insulted when people tell me that I do, because I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:29:40):
Want to look like a man.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
I want to look like a beautiful woman.

Speaker 5 (01:29:43):
I want to be toad like Sarah, y'all. So I
had such a hard time relating to that.

Speaker 22 (01:29:50):
Because, I mean, guys think like barks are funny and
you know, and they're growth and they smell bad.

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
Like they can shower hours later.

Speaker 22 (01:30:00):
They smell that, and I want to smell like you know,
Esther's perfume that she put on for eighteen months straight.
And so I just had a hard time thinking like Yeah,
God made me in his image, Like, that's what the
Bible says, so I guess that's what I'm gonna believe.
But really it goes so much deeper.

Speaker 5 (01:30:16):
Than that, because.

Speaker 22 (01:30:19):
When we stop to really think about all of the
tenderness of the Lord and his appreciation for beauty and
his longing for romance, that the Bible says that he's
a jealous God, that he wants to be pursued, just
like we as women, we want to be pursued.

Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
We want someone to find us.

Speaker 22 (01:30:36):
The Bible refers to God as our husband, as a
lover of our souls, and all of those things that
make us feminine, they all still came from the Lord.
Our desire to be found beautiful and to appreciate beauty,
our desire to be loved and to be found.

Speaker 5 (01:30:53):
Worthy of love. All of this comes from.

Speaker 22 (01:30:55):
Him, And instead of feeling guilty about it, we can
start appreciating it as how we're made in God's image.

Speaker 5 (01:31:03):
And I think.

Speaker 22 (01:31:06):
That that's something that when we start to accept, we
start to actually grow more into the image of God.
The Bible says that we reflect the image of God, which,
when I get to in a second, our lip glosses
at Hope Beauty are called lip reflects because of the
Bible verse that says we reflect the image of God
as if looking into a mirror, and.

Speaker 5 (01:31:26):
It's true about us, we do reflect the image of God.

Speaker 22 (01:31:30):
And this is something that's so special because it tells
us that our beauty never came from us. It's not
a feeling like when we say I feel so beautiful today,
because feelings are fickle there one minute and then they're
gone the next. It's not a makeup product. We the
first person in the world, even as the founder and
CEO of a makeup line, to tell you that you
don't need makeup. That makeup will never actually make you

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beautiful because it simply doesn't have the power to.

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
Make you what and who you already are.

Speaker 22 (01:31:58):
This was just placed inside of you by God because
you reflect His.

Speaker 5 (01:32:03):
Image to the rest of the world.

Speaker 22 (01:32:05):
And so I think that it's time as women that
we start accepting these things that are from God about
us as good and wonderful and true, and we accept
it and have confidence in it, because when we do.

Speaker 5 (01:32:18):
Then we can go to the grocery store.

Speaker 22 (01:32:24):
And you don't have like on any makeup and you
are much less likely.

Speaker 5 (01:32:29):
I'm sure you know you probably have.

Speaker 23 (01:32:31):
Your less.

Speaker 6 (01:32:44):
Okay, I think we had a little disturbance there, but
I think we definitely got the message. And Esther, I'm
identifying with Esther and her eighteen month pilgrimage to get beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:32:59):
Listen, Hey, what do they say? Pain is beauty? Beauty
takes a long time.

Speaker 19 (01:33:04):
But I had no idea about any of that. But
it's a really interesting perspective that really shines some light
on a different way of thinking about things.

Speaker 4 (01:33:14):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
I thought it was fascinating. Emily.

Speaker 6 (01:33:16):
I've been in the studio with you early in the morning.
The two of us are here early doing our hair.
It takes a long time. You don't understand.

Speaker 19 (01:33:25):
Guys men having so easy, Emi.

Speaker 5 (01:33:29):
What your thoughts?

Speaker 7 (01:33:30):
They really do have it easy, you know, Allison, I'm
having flashbacks to a lot.

Speaker 8 (01:33:35):
Of mornings running over to you being like, do you.

Speaker 7 (01:33:37):
Have dry shampoo? Do you have extra conceealer? You know,
you gotta support each other. Women, gotta girls helping girls,
women helping women. Got to be there for each other
and the things that the men will never understand.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
But let me just say I have.

Speaker 7 (01:33:48):
Been the biggest fan of Hope Harvard for years. At
this point, I think she is absolutely inspiring. She truly
is a godly woman, and she lives the Bible's values
every day through her business.

Speaker 8 (01:34:00):
I mean, think about this for a second. She's a businesswoman.

Speaker 7 (01:34:02):
She owns a makeup company, and she was sitting there
saying that makeup will never make you beautiful.

Speaker 8 (01:34:07):
It comes from within.

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
She's not trying to sell something to someone just to
make money. She's trying to sell a message and to
sell values. And I have tremendous, tremendous respect for Hope.
I will say the one quote that I took away
from her speech right there, she said that.

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
God is a great girl dad.

Speaker 7 (01:34:22):
I mean, how cool is that perspective coming from Hope.
Like I said, I am such a big fan of her,
and I'm so happy that Turning Point was able to
bring her up on stage today.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
That is the first time I've ever heard of Hope.
She's a riot. She is really funny.

Speaker 6 (01:34:37):
And what a great company because when you think about
recently the big companies with like Kylie Jenner and Justin Bieber,
Hailey Bieber. Yeah, okay, so Hailey Bieber, so now here
you have two other women who have these big cosmetic companies,
and they actually had a lot of plastic surgery, and

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then they launched medic companies, and they're selling these cosmetics
to all of us, thinking that we're going to look
perfect like them because we'd buy their cosmetics, and that.

Speaker 5 (01:35:10):
Is really backwards.

Speaker 19 (01:35:11):
Let me take you down a trip through memory lane
to your point.

Speaker 5 (01:35:15):
There.

Speaker 19 (01:35:15):
Kylie Jenner a billionaire off of her cosmetics company. And
if you remember back in the day, the biggest piece
of gossip was her lips. She had these large, volumptuous
lips and she used to say, well, I would.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
Just overline them.

Speaker 19 (01:35:29):
She used her lips for the record she was getting filler,
which again, if you get filler, that's totally okay, but
do not lie to people, especially young girls who are
trying to achieve an unattainable standard of beauty. So essentially,
what Kylie Jenner did is she used her filled lips
telling people that they were natural to launch a lip kit,
and ultimately these lipkits would sell out in minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:35:52):
You would have to be on a Q online to
get one of these things.

Speaker 19 (01:35:55):
Because the dream and the vision was selling these young
girls this in hopes that they'll look like Kylie Jenner,
only for it to come out that she actually had
plastic surgery and those work natural. And it's such a
toxic spiral, especially for the young girls of our generation.
I fear Emily and Allison that it's only getting worse
as social media continues to be such a prominent factor

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for little kids.

Speaker 6 (01:36:20):
Oh and I have to jump in with this. I mean,
I don't want to be tacky, but have you seen
lately on Instagram and TikTok where a lot of young
women are going on and this was Kylie Jenner. They're
going on and they're talking about their breast implant, plastic surgery, lastic.

Speaker 5 (01:36:38):
Surgery, they're going on.

Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
They're telling how big, what the ccs are, how to
go out and get this operation.

Speaker 19 (01:36:48):
So I'm going to play devil's advocate to that one.
I can actually respect someone, especially a celebrity, if they're
going to be honest and come out and say that
they've had work done. Because I and my younger cousin,
she's twenty one years old, she's glued to her phone
on social media, she's always trying to keep up with
the beauty standards. And I will say there's so many celebrities,

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and we'll stick on the Kardashians.

Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
How did this.

Speaker 24 (01:37:12):
Thank you home, Harvard, You've won shut your instance.

Speaker 19 (01:37:17):
Chloe Kardashian and many Hollywood celebrities for that instance, were
taking ozepic, which is a fat lost drug, and they
were going in public and telling people that through diet
and exercise they.

Speaker 5 (01:37:29):
Lost all these weights.

Speaker 19 (01:37:30):
Now all of these young women are looking at these
celebrities and wondering why they cannot achieve the same results,
and it's frustrating. It puts them in a dark hole.
It's an unrealistic beauty standard. And again I think it
works with obviously corporations that are selling to women right
where the number one consumers but a two ful a
devil's advocate. Back to your point, I can respect it

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a little bit more if a celebrity is going to
come out and say the work that they've had done
rather than try to lie about.

Speaker 5 (01:37:55):
It, I totally get you.

Speaker 6 (01:37:57):
But I'm going to push back because I think that
in normal eye is a procedure for young people out there.

Speaker 5 (01:38:03):
Emily jump in, where do you say?

Speaker 7 (01:38:08):
You know what I'm gathering from you guys, is that
Kylie Jenner is out in Hope Harvard is in. Like
I said, you know, the beauty standard for women, there
is so much pressure, especially I'm sure Michelle listening to
you speaker, especially for young women today in terms of
filler and you know, preston plants and all of the
different like plastic surgery make up different things that you
can do. I'm going to give my parents another shout

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out here for.

Speaker 8 (01:38:30):
Empowering me to be able to maybe a revision.

Speaker 7 (01:38:33):
I've ever had fillers, I've never had any plastic surgery
or anything like that.

Speaker 8 (01:38:37):
So shout out to Tom and Eileen in Michigan for
raising me right and in terms of that. But you know,
Kylie judder is House and her.

Speaker 5 (01:38:44):
Dashians are out.

Speaker 21 (01:38:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:38:48):
But yes, yes, I'm very very pankful for my parents
after listening to all of these conversations.

Speaker 8 (01:38:53):
Yes, Happy Father's Day to Tom Finn.

Speaker 4 (01:38:55):
He deserves a lot of credit.

Speaker 17 (01:38:57):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:38:57):
God is a great girl, dad, and so is Tom Finn.

Speaker 4 (01:38:59):
And miss again, love you d Well Emily.

Speaker 12 (01:39:03):
We're gonna we're gonna go back to Hope Harvard.

Speaker 5 (01:39:06):
She's finishing up right now. Let's get a.

Speaker 6 (01:39:08):
Last few words from a real real woman.

Speaker 5 (01:39:11):
Say hello, so thank you guys so much. All right, well,
we got the last few word that we missed it because.

Speaker 19 (01:39:30):
We went on a rampage about the Jenners and the Kardashia, which,
to be fair, was warranted.

Speaker 6 (01:39:36):
It's warranted, but it was a great conversation about beauty
and hope. Harvard, I'm definitely checking out your line next
time I'm out Sephora or Alta or something like that. Okay,
we got to go back to the stage because we
have a very important speaker monica page, so let's hit it.

Speaker 24 (01:39:53):
Common sense rules that I've followed throughout my life and career,
and I hope they help you. So let's start Number one.
Believe in yourself and lean on your faith. No one
knows you better than you know you.

Speaker 5 (01:40:05):
With the exception of God.

Speaker 24 (01:40:07):
There are always going to be people who make you
feel like you are inadequate. Ignore them, Take risks, and
challenge yourself to do hard things. You will find that
the biggest obstacle to progress is just getting started. And
that's not to say it will be easy, but that's
where your faith comes in. And my lowest points throughout
my life and career, my faith in God has always

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grounded me and comforted me. Isaiah forty one to ten
is a verse. I come back to fear not, for
I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am
your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you.
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Number two.
Work your butt off. There is no substitute for hard work.
Hard work is the ultimate key to success, no matter

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what you want to do in life. In every job
I've held, from working at my family's ice cream shop
as a teenager to now serving as the White House
Press secretary, never shied away from doing the hard work.
There is no task or responsibility I've ever thought I
was above doing in any role. So don't be unwilling
to roll up your sleeves and grind it out. I

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am telling you most people are not willing to do it,
and it's what.

Speaker 5 (01:41:14):
Will separate you from the pack.

Speaker 24 (01:41:16):
Working hard with a positive attitude, it will truly set
you apart. And that brings me to number three. Be
kind to everyone you work with. In politics, especially in Washington,
kindness is a rarity, So don't ever let.

Speaker 5 (01:41:30):
Someone tell you being kind is a weakness.

Speaker 24 (01:41:33):
In fact, being kind to everyone from the intern all
the way up to the President of the United States.
Will leave a positive mark and will make people remember
you and they'll want to work with you again. And
trust me, you never know where others are going to
end up. The intern today could be the boss tomorrow.
So always treat every person you work with with dignity

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and respect.

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
I can't wait to see how much of.

Speaker 24 (01:41:56):
An impact all of you have on our country in
the years ahead. I wish I was there having fun
with you, but stay in the fight. President Trump and
our country are counting on you.

Speaker 4 (01:42:05):
Now.

Speaker 24 (01:42:05):
It's my privilege to turn it over to a great patriot.
Turning point USA is White House correspondent.

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
Who I get to see every day, Monica Page.

Speaker 25 (01:42:23):
The Trump administration continues the fight to protect women and girls,
filing a massive lawsuit against Maine's Education Department for not
complying with the federal law banning males from participating in
female sports.

Speaker 5 (01:42:34):
We have to get back to common.

Speaker 4 (01:42:35):
Sense values, because they're not just conservative values.

Speaker 5 (01:42:38):
It's just a common sense you. Girls can't be bullys.

Speaker 4 (01:42:40):
Boys can't be girls.

Speaker 26 (01:42:41):
You know, men can't get pregnant.

Speaker 27 (01:42:43):
More special intelligence is only going to get more and
more complex. Importantly, clan fun on these issues now rather
than later. WHOA Okay, let's hear for Press Secretary Caroline Levitt,

(01:43:08):
the youngest female Press secretary in history. How incredible, And
speaking of incredible, it is such an incredible honor to
be speaking with such a beautiful group of vibrant, smart
values dremn women just like yourselves. It is such an
honor to be here. And I'm so thrilled to be
standing before you guys this year. You guys are the

(01:43:28):
heartbeat of a movement that celebrates faith, family, country, and
well being. And I'm so thrilled to have this opportunity.
I'm Monica Page, I'm your White House correspondent for Frontlines
with Turning Point USA. And this is honestly a role
but I never expected that I would ever have. It's
one that has definitely shown me the power that we

(01:43:49):
hold to shape the future. I stand here to prove
that with courage, determination, a commitment to truth, and a
strong faith in God, you can break barriers and you
can literally do anything that you want in this world,
and you can make your dreams come true.

Speaker 5 (01:44:07):
In unimaginable ways.

Speaker 27 (01:44:09):
Now my journey on this path, many people ask me
how did you get here? It was never easy, and
it was one that was fraught with a number of obstacles.

Speaker 5 (01:44:18):
I've had ex.

Speaker 27 (01:44:19):
Boyfriends tell me that I would never amount to anything.
I've had doors slammed in my face despite trying to
pride them open myself and once getting through those doors.
I've had former colleagues mock the way I do my job.
I'm not doing my job well enough, or there was
something that I was doing wrong that they didn't approve of.
But you cannot let anybody extinguish the fire that God

(01:44:43):
placed in your heart. So with that being said, I
first started to think about what I wanted to do
with my life. Like many of you, and just like
many of you, I was a young woman with very
big dreams. My mother used to tell me, if you
want something badly enough, you will get it, and you
can get it. But I also faced a number of doubts.
I didn't necessarily wonder or worry if my voice mattered

(01:45:07):
in a world that oftentimes seems very chaotic and loud,
because I too am chaotic and loud. But I've always
been confident and strong in my beliefs.

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
I questioned whether.

Speaker 27 (01:45:19):
I could stand tall in the face of criticism and
continue to push forward despite being told no. And I
was tested, and I was tested, especially during my time
in college. I went to a four year school. I
went to Maris College in New York State. It's now
Maris University. I majored in broadcast journalism. Any journalism majors
out there, raise your hands, because it's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:45:41):
A number of you nice.

Speaker 27 (01:45:42):
It's not an easy industry, I'll tell you that. But
I knew that I wanted to be a news anchor
since I was very little, But I didn't know what
kind of TV reporter I wanted to be. Did I
want to do local news? Did I want to do
entertainment news? Did I want to do politics? Never politics.
I never thought I wanted to do politics. That was
a beast in and of itself. But entertainment sounded like

(01:46:03):
a lot of fun because it never really seemed like
work to keep up with the Kardashians. But just like
many things, I kept an open mind. Now everyone used
to say, you know, college is the.

Speaker 5 (01:46:13):
Best four years of your life. You're going to enjoy
every year of your life.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
The best four years.

Speaker 27 (01:46:17):
I didn't have the traditional college experience. They were not
the best four years of my life, and they were challenging.
Beyond academics, I struggled to make friends, and the ever
expanding world of social media at that time allowed for
more anonymity, which in turn led me down a very
dark path of being cyber bullied. People spread lies about me.

(01:46:40):
Unimaginable things were said about me, creating fake narratives, manipulating
my peers views of me and.

Speaker 5 (01:46:47):
Who I am.

Speaker 27 (01:46:49):
I lost friends, I was black listed on nearly every
single sorority roster during bidding season, and I really kind
of lost sight of who I was and I true.

Speaker 5 (01:47:00):
At the end of the day, I felt like giving
up multiple times.

Speaker 27 (01:47:04):
But underneath it all, I realized there was a lesson
that needed to be learned.

Speaker 5 (01:47:09):
There was a lesson under all this.

Speaker 27 (01:47:11):
There was a reason I was going through all of this,
and that was because God needed me to be resilient.
Little did I know how much I needed this quality
of resilience to level up.

Speaker 5 (01:47:22):
I needed to learn something from these.

Speaker 27 (01:47:23):
Experiences, and whether that was going to be leveling up
in my life, my career, whatever it was, I knew
there needed to be a lesson to be learned, and
that was resilience. So let's fast forward five years after graduation.
It's twenty twenty three, and after holding a number of
exciting jobs and weeding my way through the very intimidating
world of media, I found.

Speaker 5 (01:47:42):
Myself at the White House.

Speaker 27 (01:47:45):
Under former President Joe Biden. And now that I'm here,
I'm noticing that it's drawing some very serious parallels. Except
this time, the lies and the fake narratives they aren't
about me. They're about the world we live in. But
this time around, I knew how to handle it. I

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had thicker skin after everything that I had been through previously,
a stronger relationship and trust in God, thankfully that if
I could handle the blows towards me, I could certainly
handle it and bring the American people the truth. So
I'm here at the White House, and it's not just
any white house. I was dealing with a white House

(01:48:28):
that didn't value the truth. I was dealing with a
Joe Biden white House. It was that White House that
claimed Joe Biden visited the southern border to tackle the
immigration crisis, but it was a stage photo op to
take pictures and shake hands, claiming the border was secured,
despite the record numbers of illegal aliens crossing through our
southern border and into our country. It was that White

(01:48:50):
House that claimed the economy was the strongest that had
ever been while families were struggling with inflation, multiple reports
citing families.

Speaker 5 (01:48:58):
Had to live paycheck to paycheck.

Speaker 27 (01:49:00):
Just to afford the everyday necessities. Multiple times the White
House had said prices are coming down, the price of
eggs are coming down. Everyday people are at the grocery
store and telling the White House is telling them not
to believe their own eyes and what they'd see.

Speaker 5 (01:49:14):
And it was that White House that.

Speaker 27 (01:49:15):
Claimed, you know, jobs were up, but they were artificially
pumping the labor force with government workers and not workers
in the private sector. And of course, as you all
may know, it was that White House that insisted we
had a president that was mentally.

Speaker 5 (01:49:30):
Fit for the job.

Speaker 27 (01:49:31):
He didn't need to take a cognitive test because he
was just that cognitively and mentally fit to do the job.

Speaker 5 (01:49:38):
Now, I was.

Speaker 27 (01:49:39):
Never called on in the briefing room during the Biden administration.
I wasn't allowed to question the narrative that was force.

Speaker 26 (01:49:46):
Fed to us on a daily basis.

Speaker 5 (01:49:48):
And it's not like I didn't try.

Speaker 27 (01:49:51):
I wrote emails to the White House.

Speaker 5 (01:49:53):
I tried to get.

Speaker 27 (01:49:54):
Meetings with former Press Secretary Karine John Pierre, but I
was constantly shut down. So now let's fast forward to
the presidential race and when the reports were circulating that
Joe Biden was going to drop out of the race
after his disastrous debate performance against President Trump, which by
the way, the White House blamed on a very bad

(01:50:15):
cold and jet lag by the way, I sent yet
another email. Now I was fully expecting this email to
be discarded along with the.

Speaker 5 (01:50:23):
Others, but still I persisted.

Speaker 28 (01:50:25):
I wrote an email.

Speaker 5 (01:50:26):
I inquired whether or not the reports were true? Was
it true?

Speaker 4 (01:50:29):
Was Joe Biden going to drop out of the presidential race?

Speaker 27 (01:50:32):
And then I get a response, actually a response a
few moments later, three words from a former staffer. He says, quote,
it's fan fiction, A resounding no. Joe Biden was not
going to drop out of the race. What happens two
days later, Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
So what I experienced on a personal level here is

(01:50:55):
happening on a national scale.

Speaker 5 (01:50:57):
Every single day.

Speaker 27 (01:51:00):
Street media, with its vast rege and influence, is spreading
lies and creating these fake narratives that manipulate how the
American people.

Speaker 4 (01:51:08):
See the world around them.

Speaker 27 (01:51:10):
Just as those bullies twisted my story to control how
others saw me, too, many media outlets twist facts to
shape public perception. Whether it's about politics or culture or
the state of our nation. They frame events to fit agendas,
to amplify division and erode our trust in one another

(01:51:30):
and also in the truth itself.

Speaker 5 (01:51:32):
And that is very dangerous.

Speaker 4 (01:51:34):
So think about it.

Speaker 27 (01:51:36):
How often have you seen maybe a new sided, new
story that felt one sided or exaggerated or just plain wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
And how many times have you.

Speaker 27 (01:51:46):
Felt maybe confused or angry and even divided because of.

Speaker 5 (01:51:51):
What you've read or what you watched.

Speaker 27 (01:51:53):
Okay, that's not by accident, that is by design. And
just like these narratives that are meant to polarize us,
to make us doubt our share of reality, they also
make us feel powerless as people. So, just like in
my college days, these people with the loudest voices, whether
it's you know the mean girls, the popular mean girls,

(01:52:14):
or it's a media outlet with millions of viewers, these
two can wield influence to control our story and control
the story that we're living every single day, and that's.

Speaker 5 (01:52:23):
Not fair to us.

Speaker 27 (01:52:25):
We don't have to accept these narratives that hand it
to us. We can question them and challenge them, and
we can seek the truth ourselves. We can turn the
pain of division and mistrust into the power of both
unity and clarity. And it starts by refusing to be
passive consumers of information. So my fight to reclaim my

(01:52:49):
truth in college, it wasn't easy by any means, but
it made me.

Speaker 4 (01:52:52):
That much stronger.

Speaker 27 (01:52:53):
It taught me that no lie, no matter how loud,
can stand against someone who refuses to be silenced, because,
believe it or not, the truth always comes out and
it always wins. And we see this now, thankfully. We
see this now with a brand new, fresh administration at
the White House, the Trump White House. It's a white

(01:53:16):
House that delivers on its campaign promises. It's a white
House that addresses the real issues and actively works.

Speaker 5 (01:53:24):
To fix them. It's a white House that.

Speaker 27 (01:53:26):
Isn't afraid of a challenge and fights back against the
lies of the mainstream media. Which brings me to the
rise of new media, which is now at the White House.
And it's been incredible since its start. It's a space
where authenticity, creativity, and grit can cut through the noise
and now connect with millions in different ways, ways that

(01:53:46):
we've never thought could even be possible.

Speaker 5 (01:53:49):
And the best part is that our voices are heard. Now.

Speaker 27 (01:53:53):
It's not just the president's house, it's the people's house.
And it's not just me being called on the briefing room. Now,
we are being called on in the briefing room as
a whole. And it's because I'm there on behalf of you,
the American people who deserve answers and deserve the truth.

Speaker 4 (01:54:10):
Now.

Speaker 27 (01:54:10):
There are days, of course, where the pressure feels immense
and the criticism stings, and I usually sometimes I wonder,
you know, whether I'm doing enough or if I'm doing
a good job. But then I remember why I'm here
and am here because I believe in the power of
our voices, and in the spirit and strength of our values,
and the unstoppable spirit and strength of women like you,

(01:54:30):
because you are the next generation of leaders and.

Speaker 5 (01:54:34):
The world needs you now.

Speaker 27 (01:54:36):
And I emphasizing this, the world needs you.

Speaker 5 (01:54:38):
Now more than ever.

Speaker 27 (01:54:39):
You do not realize how much we need young voices
and young women just like yourselves here in this space.
And the best part about this, though, is that you
don't have to be at the White House or in
the White House to make a difference.

Speaker 5 (01:54:53):
Whether you're creating content.

Speaker 27 (01:54:54):
On social media or speaking out in your community, whether
that's your community of family, friends, school, whatever that looks
like for you, you have the power to inspire change,
but only if you are ready, because you got to
be ready, because just like sunlight, the truth can be
the best disinfectant. So I'm going to leave this speech

(01:55:15):
off with this. Do not be afraid to step into
your power. Do not shy away from speaking the truth,
even when it's hard, and even when it hurts.

Speaker 5 (01:55:26):
You need to amplify.

Speaker 27 (01:55:27):
Your voice, whether it's a post or a video, whatever
it looks like, and be the woman who stands firm
and her values and leads with grace and strength, and
be the woman who inspires others to do the same.

Speaker 5 (01:55:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 27 (01:55:48):
I think we're going to open up to some questions.

Speaker 11 (01:55:51):
I believe.

Speaker 5 (01:55:51):
I believe that's right.

Speaker 27 (01:55:52):
I think we're going to open up to some questions
in case any of you guys have any questions regarding
what the White House is like on a day to
day basis and being a being called on on the
behalf of Turning Point and front Lines. So I'm happy
to take any of your questions.

Speaker 29 (01:56:12):
Oh okay, hi over here, like to your.

Speaker 5 (01:56:16):
Right, yes, oh hi.

Speaker 29 (01:56:19):
So as someone who's really interested in journalism, and I've
been to a few journalism camps where I find that
I'm not like, my opinions are very much different from
everybody else's. So when there's such a polarized environment, how
can you kind of like talk to other people who,
for example, on the far left and still have them

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support your media.

Speaker 27 (01:56:41):
That is an incredible question, and that is something that
I deal with on a daily basis, actually, And what
it comes down to is having those conversations that are
hard and making sure that you listen, because a lot
of that communication is not only.

Speaker 5 (01:56:54):
About speaking, but it's also about listening.

Speaker 27 (01:56:57):
So when you hear the other side and you come
through facts, because it's so important to be fact based,
and fact based is kind of such a difficult concept
to understand, considering the different kinds of media that we
have nowadays that are so right leaning or so leaning,
but it's so important to look at the facts and
look at the numbers in real time, the raw numbers
to emphasize the point that you're trying to make. And

(01:57:20):
I think that's a fabulous question. But make sure that
you are listening to the other side and seeing how
the other side is framing their story, so you can say, Okay,
while that could be true, here's what's also happening that
may not be getting enough attention.

Speaker 29 (01:57:36):
Great question, thank you, And then I just have one
more quick question. So at my school newspaper, even though
I'm the editor, we have to ask our teacher before
we're allowed to publish things. And I actually wasn't allowed
to publish a story about this year's presidential election because
it was favoring our current president. What would your advice
for something like that if that were to happen again be.

Speaker 27 (01:57:58):
I would push it anyway on your own platform.

Speaker 12 (01:58:00):
Do not let anybody.

Speaker 29 (01:58:01):
Start three to the headmaster, and I explain this situation,
but they still wouldn't let me publish.

Speaker 5 (01:58:06):
It with the newspaper.

Speaker 27 (01:58:07):
So what I would say to that is publish it
it's your own account, but also push it to other
news outlets and say, hey, I have this great story
that I wrote.

Speaker 5 (01:58:17):
What don't you post it to your own own account.

Speaker 27 (01:58:19):
That's that is a true example of how media can
work to silence us. And even if it's just a
straight up story saying President Trump won the election, how
that's just a fact. And if you're not pushing the facts,
you know, what's the point of even having that media outlet.
But I think posting it on your own account is
something that I would have definitely done, and maybe even

(01:58:40):
starting your own website and your own blog where you
can push your own stories and send them around, post them.
Even if you don't have any followers, the people will
see them in some way, shape or form. Keep pushing them,
keep posting them. You should never stop posting the stories,
especially the truth. I appreciate that. Thank you.

Speaker 30 (01:58:59):
So you just talked about earlier in your speech how
in the previous administration there was a lot of miscommunication,
a lot of you know things, I say said Joe
Biden is going to continue the race where he didn't.
And I was wondering, in the pursuit of knowing what
is true and what is not true, how do you
suggest us taking that into our own hands, as people

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who might not be in the White House or in
those situations, what can we do to look at the
information and to deduce what is right and what is not,
or what is true.

Speaker 4 (01:59:32):
And was not.

Speaker 27 (01:59:33):
That's a really good question, and to that I would say,
do your research, make sure that you were looking at
both sides of the aisle. When I do my research
for my stories, I make sure that I'm looking at
every single different outlet, whether that's CNN, Fox News, your
right leaning outlets, your left leaning outlets, just to make
sure that I'm getting both sides of the story right.
And also, don't be afraid to reach out to whatever

(01:59:54):
you're working on, whether that's you know, the border numbers
you reach out to DHS yourself, or that's you know,
a fact based, numbers based outlet where you can get
your information that won't be filtered by a narrative.

Speaker 4 (02:00:06):
And to that, that's what I would say.

Speaker 5 (02:00:08):
But that's a great question.

Speaker 4 (02:00:13):
Hello.

Speaker 5 (02:00:13):
So I think as conservatives.

Speaker 31 (02:00:17):
You know, as you were talking about, we really want
to be fact based and that's an advantage that we have.
And you know, in my experience, I have my own
blog and I really try.

Speaker 5 (02:00:25):
To focus on that.

Speaker 31 (02:00:26):
But in today's like fast cased media world where everything
is ex posts and short form videos, how do you
balance like wanting to give that context with trying to
get your point across in a very fast and like
succinct way.

Speaker 27 (02:00:43):
So I think it's that's a great question, and I
would say with my reporting, it's so important to be
succynct and whether that's on X. I'll make a short
explainer video where I break down, like, say, the President's
signed something into effect. I will go into that bill
and I'll pull some of the top key points and
I'll make a post or a video, just an explainer video,

(02:01:05):
and then I say, if you want more information, go
to my blog or go to this website where I
can just break down each and every point and what
this means for the American people and what people are
getting wrong that maybe they don't know about. You know,
it's important to highlight the important information that is in
this bill. Whatever you know, with the whatever the left
is saying, make sure that you say, well, critics are

(02:01:25):
saying this, here's what's also fantastic about it, and here's why.
In bullet point lists, I think using bulletpoint lists are
a really easy and fast way to get a point
across without having to you know, type a whole thing
out and have people, you know, judge through it.

Speaker 28 (02:01:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 32 (02:01:43):
Hi, my name is Samantha. I wanted to asso I
was talking to the rung gen Z Booth who helps
people get elected. But something with that is, even if
you have the best intentions, you're now on a public platform,
You're never going to make people one hundred percent happy.
How do you deal with the negative and hate even
when you're trying to do good?

Speaker 27 (02:02:03):
I really like this question because that's something that I
have dealt with.

Speaker 5 (02:02:07):
Countless times in this space.

Speaker 27 (02:02:09):
And there was a situation that had happened that I
reported on. It involved a flight on the way home
from Amfest America Fest.

Speaker 4 (02:02:16):
And it got a lot of hate.

Speaker 27 (02:02:17):
And I was reporting on something that was happening to
me in real time, and I had so many people
send me terrible death threat emails. You should, you know,
off yourself like all these nasty, nasty things. You've got
to keep pushing because when you strike a nerve with
people who are going to be negative and nasty to you,
that means you're doing the right thing and there are
people who will side with you. You know, there are

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people who are on your side even though the criticism
is loud.

Speaker 5 (02:02:42):
Pay attention to those.

Speaker 26 (02:02:43):
Who are supporting you and just you have.

Speaker 27 (02:02:46):
You can't let that stop you, and you can't let
the negativity deter you from speaking your truth, doing your
own work and good work, and making a difference in
your community.

Speaker 28 (02:02:56):
Thank you for the question.

Speaker 5 (02:02:57):
Thank you. I think, yeah, that's it the time.

Speaker 27 (02:03:01):
I think we're good, Okay, So if you have any
further questions, you can find me. I'll be floating around
the media boots and media row. So thank you guys
so much for your time and I appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (02:03:09):
Thank you, God blessed well.

Speaker 6 (02:03:19):
That was another strong speech and then really interesting with
the Q and A afterwards because you had the young
women coming up, especially the one woman who said she
wrote for the school paper and then her teacher said
she couldn't write the story because it was about Donald Trump.

Speaker 19 (02:03:33):
Yeah, and I think the Q and A is so important,
especially for Monica to answer those questions, because we really
are looking at future generations and these are going to
be the future journalists, the people that are conveying information
and holding government accountable, and it is important to ensure
that we have that lifeline.

Speaker 5 (02:03:49):
In that mentorship.

Speaker 19 (02:03:50):
I know we were talking about it during the break,
but when I was studying journalism in school, I didn't
have that type of mentorship. In fact, I was at
Penn State back.

Speaker 5 (02:03:59):
During the first time President Trump ran for.

Speaker 19 (02:04:02):
Election, and I'll tell you what, you didn't publicly say
that you were maga. You didn't publicly say that you
were supporting President Trump because it was just unheard of
on college campuses. You would immediately be called a racist,
a sexist, everything you can possibly imagine.

Speaker 5 (02:04:16):
So it really did suppress a lot of voices.

Speaker 19 (02:04:18):
And I don't want to go fully down the store.
I know a lot of people might have heard it
already else in, but I do think it's important to
note as Monica was answering those questions. One of the
biggest reasons that I got out of mainstream media was
during my last job, and this is during COVID.

Speaker 5 (02:04:33):
I tried to report on what was actually going on.

Speaker 19 (02:04:36):
I had so many people coming up to me, I
had the sources. I had a phenomenal story, essentially blowing
the whistle on all the propaganda that we were seeing
on mainstream news. But because I worked for CBS, a
CBS affiliate corporate told me that if I tried to
air this story, I would be fired, and then of
course I would be blacklisted from the industry. And that's

(02:04:58):
when I raised my eyebrows and said something is wrong.

Speaker 5 (02:05:01):
So I just love the fact that we have now
independent media.

Speaker 19 (02:05:04):
We have a new form of journalism in which people
can speak up and discover the truth.

Speaker 5 (02:05:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:05:09):
Absolutely, And you can speak the truth because everything is
open source now. So if someone you can't get an
interview with someone, go to the documents. You can find
the documents. If you can research, if you are a
good researcher, you can tell a story.

Speaker 5 (02:05:25):
Yes, with the.

Speaker 6 (02:05:26):
Documents that are out there. Emily, I'd love for you
to weigh in on this.

Speaker 8 (02:05:32):
Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 7 (02:05:33):
You know, as Monica was on the stage there, I
was here interviewing Daily Caller investigative reporter Ashley Brassfields. She
was echoing a lot of the same sentiment as Monica
about the challenges that young women in media face today.
Really interesting stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:05:49):
You know.

Speaker 7 (02:05:49):
Ashley was telling me about an investigation that she's doing
into the Biden White House, the cover ups, the use
of the auto pen.

Speaker 8 (02:05:58):
What does Stephers know, what didn't they know?

Speaker 7 (02:06:00):
Why weren't journalists asking the questions that they should have
been asking?

Speaker 5 (02:06:04):
And I can.

Speaker 7 (02:06:04):
Imagine that Monica probably goes through the same thing as
a White House correspondent today. You know, it's a very
different administration. The Trump administration is much more transparent than
what we saw over the past four years. But like
I said, a lot of challenges for young women in media, Alison, Michelle,
I know that you guys know exactly what I'm talking about.

Speaker 8 (02:06:23):
We all have faced that.

Speaker 7 (02:06:25):
But great that we are addressing those things here at
the Young Women's Leadership Summit here in Dallas, able to
have those conversations and share different perspectives. Monica, I think,
is going to be stopping by our booth later in
the day, so we'll be hearing from her directly. Just
a lot of inspiring voices here, Alison and Michelle.

Speaker 4 (02:06:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:06:44):
And you know, I was having this moment when I
was watching Monica and she was giving so much great
information and I thought, you know what, so far today,
everything that we're hearing its tips, it's inspiration. It's about face,
a family, children, career.

Speaker 5 (02:07:02):
But I'm not hearing any male bashing, men bashing, you know,
not once that that's actually a good point. And I'm thinking, Wow,
I've gone through a lot of.

Speaker 6 (02:07:12):
Women's conferences over the years, and that's usually kind of the.

Speaker 19 (02:07:19):
Salvos well, especially women in leadership, because then it gets
into the slippery slope, which I cannot stand, the victim mentality,
and I know a lot of you are like that
as well, but it gets into the victim mentality.

Speaker 5 (02:07:31):
You're here because you're a woman.

Speaker 19 (02:07:33):
You will never have this because we need to take
down the patriarchy.

Speaker 5 (02:07:35):
We need to take down. Then men are the problem.

Speaker 19 (02:07:38):
Men are evil, and that's really just such a toxic narrative.

Speaker 5 (02:07:42):
But it's one that's been out there for the past.
It's still out it's still out there.

Speaker 6 (02:07:46):
It's still out there, and it's one that's been really
heavy for the past ten to fifteen years. And that's
why this is such a unique conference because it's so
inspirational and positive and I.

Speaker 5 (02:07:57):
Just love that. Yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 19 (02:08:00):
And I actually believe we have another speaker on the
stage at this point, Ginny Urch. She's the founder of
one thousand Hours.

Speaker 5 (02:08:06):
Outside, a mom of five and a.

Speaker 19 (02:08:08):
Powerful advocate for getting kids off screens and into nature.
So let's tune into her messages will be a good one.

Speaker 12 (02:08:14):
I having to do it, and I said, well, what
is my job.

Speaker 16 (02:08:16):
Going to be as the assistant, And she says, your
job is to keep time, So.

Speaker 12 (02:08:20):
You're about to learn things. If you don't know much
about birth or home birth, you're gonna learn something really important.

Speaker 11 (02:08:25):
Ready for this.

Speaker 16 (02:08:26):
Once the head comes out, you got to know how
many minutes are happening so that you know it's safely
the rest of the body comes out. So she said,
once the head comes out, then you're gonna look at
your watch and you're gonna tell me one minute, two minutes.

Speaker 12 (02:08:41):
And I was like, no problem. I can totally do this job.
So we show up. I've never met this one mean before,
and I walk in the room. I'm gonna call her Mallory,
it's not her real name.

Speaker 16 (02:08:49):
I walk into the room and there's a berth tub
and it's taking up so much of the living room
and it's beautiful and there's candles, visits, ambiance, and I'm
a who's here? There was a grandma. He is kind
of old, little frail, so there's a grandma. There was
her husband. He appeared to not be in the home
birth crowd. He was just I don't know, maybe he
was upset about the burning situation.

Speaker 12 (02:09:10):
I'm not sure he was not really bought in.

Speaker 16 (02:09:12):
And then there was this really small deu lay in
training named two, and she was just, I mean smaller
maybe than I've ever been in my life. And so
I'm looking for my couch to sit on so that
I can be ready for when the head comes out
here I am, I'm looking around. But what happened was
in all of the chaos, I ended up really close
to the birth tub and this woman who I have

(02:09:33):
never met.

Speaker 12 (02:09:34):
Before in my life, throws her.

Speaker 16 (02:09:36):
Arms around me and she starts to moan in my ear,
and I don't.

Speaker 12 (02:09:45):
Know, you know, am I supposed to say to her,
I'm just here to keep time.

Speaker 18 (02:09:51):
I didn't know what to do.

Speaker 11 (02:09:52):
And then she.

Speaker 12 (02:09:52):
Says this, I'm too hot. I need to get out
of the birth tub.

Speaker 4 (02:09:57):
I was like, I had to.

Speaker 11 (02:09:58):
Touch your wet legs.

Speaker 12 (02:10:01):
I don't know, and this is what I end up doing.
The other people couldn't do it.

Speaker 16 (02:10:05):
So I am grabbing her leg and we're in and
out and in and out.

Speaker 12 (02:10:09):
I'm wet.

Speaker 5 (02:10:12):
I was just.

Speaker 16 (02:10:13):
Supposed to keep time, and I gotta be honest, I
got bored. My midwife was like, this is not her
first baby.

Speaker 12 (02:10:19):
It's gonna be quick.

Speaker 16 (02:10:20):
And I was like, I don't know for hours, I'm
getting her in and out of this birth tub. I'm
ready to go home, and no one else was anywhere
to be found.

Speaker 12 (02:10:29):
I don't know where they went.

Speaker 16 (02:10:30):
And the final straw was when I walked to the
hallway where the bathroom was and the midwife was.

Speaker 12 (02:10:36):
Asleep in the middle of the hallway, just out.

Speaker 16 (02:10:42):
I was like, I have to take something into my
own hands here because I'm done.

Speaker 12 (02:10:46):
I am ready to go home.

Speaker 16 (02:10:48):
And so when I was trying to have my babies,
sometimes it kind of gets stuck. You gotta kind of
push that process along.

Speaker 12 (02:10:53):
And so this woman told me, she said, she said,
put your leg up on a chair. I was like, okay,
it's the baby.

Speaker 4 (02:11:00):
And it worked for me.

Speaker 16 (02:11:01):
So I said, Mallory, we're gonna do some here. I'm
gonna get this chair and I'm gonna need you to
put your leg up on it.

Speaker 12 (02:11:08):
And guess what, it worked. It worked.

Speaker 16 (02:11:10):
All of a sudden, she says, the baby's coming, and
the midwife woke up, and it's all it's frantic, and
I do not.

Speaker 12 (02:11:17):
Know how it happened, but somehow.

Speaker 16 (02:11:19):
This woman backed me in into the bathroom and I
am shoved up against the.

Speaker 12 (02:11:23):
Wall, holding her like this. Well, she delivers her baby,
and all of a.

Speaker 16 (02:11:29):
Sudden, the midwife says, the head came out, and she.

Speaker 12 (02:11:34):
Asked me for the time.

Speaker 16 (02:11:38):
I was like, can't you find somebody else? And so
I had to hold her like this, and I have
to say what the time is? One minute, two minutes,
And then all of a sudden it got to some
frantic point.

Speaker 12 (02:11:48):
Where it had been too much time apparently, and so
she says, we have to turn her over. I was like, well,
how am I supposed to do that.

Speaker 14 (02:11:57):
I mean, it's just me.

Speaker 16 (02:11:58):
I'm shoving this bathroom until I did. I had a
turn this woman over and.

Speaker 12 (02:12:01):
The baby was born. Oh what an experience.

Speaker 4 (02:12:06):
Five years later I got to meet him.

Speaker 12 (02:12:07):
He came up to me at a homeschool conference I
was speaking at. He says, I'm Jack. Do you remember me? No,
not really, but I mean it was quite an experience.
And here's what I want to leave you with. Two
seven word sentences.

Speaker 16 (02:12:20):
This is God's number two seven word sentences, and I
want you to take them with you. The first one
is this, put your leg up on a chair. We
live in a day and age where things are rapidly changing.
The average person who starts a career is going to
have seven of them. Seven Gone are the days the
people who had one career for thirty years.

Speaker 12 (02:12:41):
They've died.

Speaker 16 (02:12:44):
This is exciting, it's scary, but the time is now.
You might have twelve to twenty four jobs. Someone was
asking yesterday, she said, I just graduated from high school,
not quite sure what to do.

Speaker 12 (02:12:54):
This is your time. You try stuff.

Speaker 5 (02:12:56):
And here's the concern.

Speaker 4 (02:12:57):
The concern is that you might mislive.

Speaker 12 (02:13:00):
This is what.

Speaker 16 (02:13:00):
William Irvine says. He says, there is danger that.

Speaker 12 (02:13:04):
You will mislive.

Speaker 16 (02:13:05):
And so my second seven worth cents, and I want
you to do and I want you to commit to
doing it is all summer long.

Speaker 12 (02:13:10):
I want you to read three chapters.

Speaker 16 (02:13:12):
Three chapters a day, because.

Speaker 12 (02:13:14):
You have to know what you're about.

Speaker 16 (02:13:16):
We live in a sweeping culture where the norms are
constantly changing. Social media is the largest social conformity engine
ever created, and so you have to.

Speaker 12 (02:13:25):
Know what you're about.

Speaker 16 (02:13:26):
You have to know what you believe about faith and
family and education and work and the sanctity of life.

Speaker 11 (02:13:32):
You have to know.

Speaker 12 (02:13:33):
And so in order to do that you have to read.

Speaker 16 (02:13:35):
And I'm gonna give you two examples, because the only
reason I am on this stage is because of these
things I've read.

Speaker 12 (02:13:41):
And the books i'm gonna show you cost less than
ten dollars.

Speaker 16 (02:13:44):
They're so short. I read them in less than a day.
And you never know. You don't know the paragraph that's
going to change your life.

Speaker 12 (02:13:50):
Here's the first one. It's from a book called Learning
All the Time by John Holt.

Speaker 16 (02:13:54):
The subtitle is how young children learn to read, write,
do math, and investigate the world without being dot.

Speaker 4 (02:14:01):
It's so true. Here's what John Holt says.

Speaker 16 (02:14:03):
He says, what young children need is the opportunity to
see older children and adults completing things. They need to
have some sense of the process by which good work
is done. And I read it and I was convicted
because I was not doing that as a parent. I
was orchestrating. But parenting is modeling. Life is modeling.

Speaker 12 (02:14:22):
You're showing to.

Speaker 16 (02:14:23):
People, man, how do you live? How do you live
a good life? And so I read it and I
was convicted, and I was like, I gotta put my
leg up on a chair. I've got to try something different.

Speaker 12 (02:14:30):
He goes on and He.

Speaker 16 (02:14:31):
Says, adults must use the skills they have where children
can see them.

Speaker 5 (02:14:36):
We do not do this.

Speaker 12 (02:14:38):
We siphon kids off, We put.

Speaker 4 (02:14:40):
Them in a.

Speaker 16 (02:14:40):
Box for thirteen years, and then we send them off
into a world that's rapidly changing. And it doesn't work.
So I was convicted, but also concerned.

Speaker 12 (02:14:48):
Because I was like, I don't have anything.

Speaker 4 (02:14:52):
But John Holt covered it.

Speaker 16 (02:14:54):
He says, this and the unlikely events that you have
no skills, oh nothing. He says, you got to learn
something and let your kids see you learning. So not
long after that, I got asked to write a book.

Speaker 12 (02:15:11):
All right, but you know I have a.

Speaker 16 (02:15:13):
Math degree, so that's opposite of writing a Book's no sentences.

Speaker 12 (02:15:18):
Not even hardly any words. It's just letters. So I says,
not in my skill set.

Speaker 16 (02:15:23):
And I was like, okay, well I just read this
and I'm like, I'm in this situation an unlikely event.

Speaker 12 (02:15:28):
I have no skills, so I'm gonna learn.

Speaker 16 (02:15:31):
So I said, okay, I want to write this book
called Until the Street Lights Come On. And the editor
said no.

Speaker 12 (02:15:36):
No, he says, no, We're going to tell you the
book that.

Speaker 16 (02:15:40):
We want you to write. He said, I want you
to write a craft book. And also I have to
be the photographer. So there was this point in time
where my husband had lost his job. We had four
kids under five. It wasn't really the right time to
ask for newborn photos.

Speaker 12 (02:16:00):
And I thought, well, how.

Speaker 16 (02:16:00):
Hard can it be.

Speaker 4 (02:16:01):
I'll give it a go.

Speaker 12 (02:16:06):
I have no skills, but I had just read that
paragraph in the unlikely event.

Speaker 16 (02:16:11):
Kids must see, they must adults must show them.

Speaker 12 (02:16:15):
And so I learned. And this book came out and
it was beautiful.

Speaker 16 (02:16:19):
My kids were involved, the grandparents were involved, the neighbors
were involved.

Speaker 12 (02:16:23):
You have to start to bring kids up so that they.

Speaker 16 (02:16:25):
Have more and more interaction with the adult world. And
the editor he sent a message and he said, you
have put together such a fine manuscript, one of the
best in my experience.

Speaker 11 (02:16:34):
And they send this.

Speaker 16 (02:16:35):
Layout and design and it was so beautiful and I
was so excited. And then a couple of days later,
my editor called and I'm thinking, this is going to
be a great phone call. So I had on speakerphone
so I don't get a brain tumor. And my friend
was there and he said, due to COVID, we're gonna
have to cancel your book contract.

Speaker 12 (02:16:53):
And friends, I was so embarrassed. I was humiliated.

Speaker 4 (02:16:56):
I'm at the tent.

Speaker 16 (02:16:57):
I'm so mad at John Holt did not work out
for me. And so I was like, I'm gonna have
to call everybody and tell them the book got canceled.
But we ended up self publishing.

Speaker 12 (02:17:06):
Because we self published, we got.

Speaker 16 (02:17:08):
These books printed here in the United States. We got
him in hand on April twenty ninth. They weren't supposed
to come in till November, and on April thirtieth, I.

Speaker 12 (02:17:19):
Was on the Today Show.

Speaker 16 (02:17:23):
Look at that, So modeling the process, but also modeling.

Speaker 12 (02:17:26):
What happens when there's a dip, what happens when you're.

Speaker 16 (02:17:29):
Humiliated, what happens when it doesn't work out, like how
you thought.

Speaker 4 (02:17:32):
I'm gonna give you one more.

Speaker 12 (02:17:33):
This is from a book called Stephen press by Stephen Pressfell,
called The War of Art. It is so small, it
is the smallest book.

Speaker 16 (02:17:39):
And at the very very end, I'm gonna give you
a list of my books because I think you should
read them.

Speaker 12 (02:17:42):
If you read three chapters a day, you'll.

Speaker 16 (02:17:44):
Get through two books a week, fifty books a year,
one hundred books a year is going to change your life.
I read this fear is good like self doubt, fear
is an indicator.

Speaker 12 (02:17:53):
Fear tells us what we have to do.

Speaker 11 (02:17:55):
I was like, I don't like that. I don't want
to be afraid.

Speaker 12 (02:18:00):
And just a couple weeks later, just like the.

Speaker 16 (02:18:01):
Other one, I had this woman reach out and she said,
I would like for you possibly to speak on the
main stage at the Florida Homeschool Educator Conference fifteen to
eighteen thousand people.

Speaker 4 (02:18:15):
I was like, nope, no, thank you. Who wants to
do that?

Speaker 11 (02:18:18):
I don't want to do that.

Speaker 16 (02:18:19):
She said it's just a possibility and would you be willing,
and so I said, I guess, I guess that would be.

Speaker 12 (02:18:24):
Willing, but I'm assuming no way.

Speaker 16 (02:18:26):
There's no way she's gonna pick me. And so months
went by and I heard nothing, and I was like, ifhew,
I'm off the hook.

Speaker 12 (02:18:33):
And then one day she called, you said we're announcing
it tomorrow. Ah.

Speaker 16 (02:18:38):
I was like I should have said no, what am
I gonna get up there and say?

Speaker 12 (02:18:42):
I don't feel qualified?

Speaker 16 (02:18:43):
And I had a couple of days where I started
to get.

Speaker 12 (02:18:45):
Used to it, and then they posted this. I was like,
come on, I didn't kidding me. I'm goncern regular mom.

Speaker 11 (02:18:56):
Why am I gonna be.

Speaker 12 (02:18:57):
Doing up there with Ben Carson. I started to ask people.
I was like, you happen to know who Ben Curson is?

Speaker 4 (02:19:02):
He ran for president.

Speaker 12 (02:19:03):
I was like no.

Speaker 16 (02:19:05):
And I had this book of his. It's called Take
the Risk, and I figured, well, now it's a good
time for me to read it. But I quit at
page thirty eight because here's what it says. The most
famous brain surgeon in America. He's successfully separated infant twins
joined at the head, He's done hemisphere ectomies.

Speaker 33 (02:19:26):
What then my friend sent me this. She sends me
this picture heroes of history.

Speaker 12 (02:19:46):
Why you take the risk? And friends, let me tell
you what happens?

Speaker 16 (02:19:49):
Then other doors open and really the things all combine.
They combine, because then what happens is my kids get
to come along, and then I get to end up
in wonderful situations like the situation with you.

Speaker 4 (02:20:00):
And you have to take that risk, and in.

Speaker 16 (02:20:01):
Order to do it, you have to know what you're about.
I'm gonna have my daughters stand up there right in
the middle. These are my two oldest daughters.

Speaker 12 (02:20:11):
And this is a super random story.

Speaker 16 (02:20:13):
But because we're here, I get to have opportunities to
model for them what is real adult life like?

Speaker 14 (02:20:19):
Now?

Speaker 16 (02:20:19):
These girls they've got music on Apple Music and Spotify.

Speaker 12 (02:20:23):
It's pretty incredible.

Speaker 4 (02:20:25):
They have worked with.

Speaker 16 (02:20:26):
A producer who does Mercy Me and Toby Mack and
Ann Wilson.

Speaker 12 (02:20:31):
Their band is called Two Better Friends.

Speaker 16 (02:20:34):
Please write it down because they want to have more
subscribers than their brothers.

Speaker 12 (02:20:37):
And I know than you are going to help them out.
Two Better Friends.

Speaker 16 (02:20:40):
That comes from this. You've never seen two better friends.
And they've got this music that they're doing, and they're
out and they're doing their life and they're living their things.
And last night had dinner. We were sitting next to Nala.
Ray just happened to be sitting right next to her,
and so all dinner we were like, should we introduce ourselves?
Should we say hello? Well, she think we're weird. You
know this what we're talking about. They were like, WHOA,

(02:21:00):
we're sitting right next to you and we're gonna say hello.
And here we are in this spot because I've read
these books, here we are, and so we walked over
to him. We're just you know, trying not to interrupt
and not be weird. And I tell you what she
jumped out of her seat. We said, she is the
nicest person.

Speaker 5 (02:21:15):
We have ever met.

Speaker 4 (02:21:16):
Ever.

Speaker 12 (02:21:17):
And my girls walked away and they said, if we
are ever famous, we would like to act just like her.

Speaker 16 (02:21:23):
What an experience, And this is what happens is like
as you grow, and this is really important. As you grow,
you allow the people who are around you to grow
as well. You have to step out into things that
you're afraid of. I met a dad last night. He said,
his daughter is here and she is starting a chapter,
a tipa USA chapter at her school, and he said
she it's the third largest school district in Texas.

Speaker 12 (02:21:46):
And you have to do these things. What happens when.

Speaker 4 (02:21:48):
You step out.

Speaker 16 (02:21:50):
It allows other people to step out and grow along
with you.

Speaker 11 (02:21:52):
But there is danger.

Speaker 16 (02:21:54):
There is danger that you will mislive and so you
have to think through, well, what do I want?

Speaker 12 (02:21:59):
Do I want a home?

Speaker 16 (02:22:00):
Does it make sense to me to put my child
on a school bus at eight in the morning and they.

Speaker 12 (02:22:06):
Don't come home till four thirty in the afternoon. Does
that make sense? Does it make sense in.

Speaker 16 (02:22:11):
A world that is no longer assembly line to put
them in an assembly line system?

Speaker 12 (02:22:16):
Does it make sense?

Speaker 16 (02:22:19):
And you have to think about it. You have to
think about it now. And so here's my book list.
It's coming. But before I put it up there, I
just want to remind you put those phones down. Put
them down, especially if you're a parent. Kim John Pain says,
every time we look at a phone when when we're
with our children, it's a micro abandonment.

Speaker 4 (02:22:39):
That's a big deal. Put it down.

Speaker 16 (02:22:40):
Do not look at your phone while you nurse your baby.
They want to have the interaction with you. Put it away,
put it somewhere else. Read a book. You're gonna model
to them a lifetime of growth. Here's my list. Get
ready to take a picture. Go go, go, go go.

Speaker 11 (02:22:54):
This is it.

Speaker 16 (02:22:55):
You know you could have all of these books read
by the end of the year, all of them, three
chapters a day. It will change your life. I attribute
all of my success, all of it to reading all
of it.

Speaker 12 (02:23:09):
Because what happens is you start to sink think things through,
and you give.

Speaker 4 (02:23:12):
Different people's perspectives.

Speaker 12 (02:23:13):
Then I want to end you end with this.

Speaker 4 (02:23:15):
I want to wrap it up.

Speaker 12 (02:23:16):
With this verse. This one means a lot.

Speaker 16 (02:23:20):
As you are going out and you are putting your
leg up on the chair, you're trying new things.

Speaker 12 (02:23:24):
What am I gonna do next?

Speaker 4 (02:23:26):
You're gonna try, try, try. The world is rapidly.

Speaker 12 (02:23:28):
Changing, try new things.

Speaker 16 (02:23:30):
You're gonna decide and iterate, decide and iterate.

Speaker 4 (02:23:33):
You're gonna have.

Speaker 16 (02:23:33):
Fear guide you. You don't really know what to do,
but fear send you on a path.

Speaker 12 (02:23:39):
This is what it says in the Bible that.

Speaker 16 (02:23:40):
If you roll your works on the Lord, roll them.
We live in Michigan. There's this thing called snow. It's
white falls from the sky.

Speaker 12 (02:23:52):
It's real pretty all right, It's called snow. It's like
really cold.

Speaker 16 (02:23:55):
And when you have kids, you make these big things
called snow men, and you have these really big balls
of snow and you roll them and you push them
and it's actually really good for development.

Speaker 12 (02:24:05):
You're rolling, and then you put on the next one
and the next one.

Speaker 16 (02:24:08):
The Bible says, roll your works on the Lord. What
is it that thing that you're trying, What is that
new thing? You're you're afraid, but you're gonna do it anyway,
Roll it on the Lord. And it says this, he
will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to his will,
and so shall.

Speaker 12 (02:24:24):
Your plans be established and succeed. Why w LS, thank
you for having me.

Speaker 4 (02:24:43):
Well.

Speaker 6 (02:24:43):
I was expecting that to be a conversation about homeschooling,
but it really was something all different altogether, which what
I took away from it was really about walking into
your fear and embracing your fear, which so many of us,
I mean men and women, but women especially, so many

(02:25:04):
of us we want to be perfect and we're so
afraid of doing anything wrong or making the wrong decision,
especially young women. I think that that was a really
powerful message.

Speaker 5 (02:25:14):
Yeah, I really enjoyed listening to her speak. Alison.

Speaker 19 (02:25:17):
You have a phenomenal point, because it is true women
strive for perfection, and that's a lot of pressure put
on us by society, and it's nice to hear someone
else talk about it and level with you, essentially, instead
of trying to say that everything.

Speaker 5 (02:25:31):
Needs to be perfect all the time.

Speaker 19 (02:25:33):
Emily as well, you have been busy in the field
and I think you have a pretty cool interview that
I'm excited to hear about.

Speaker 7 (02:25:43):
Yes, so very cool interview, great points from this last speaker.
There's so much pressure on young women today and we
had a chance. As Monica Page, White House Correspondent for
turning point Usas she was exiting the stage after her
speech here at the Young Women's Leadership Summit, she stopped
by our table here at the Real America's News setup.
I had a great conversation with Monica. I had a

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few laughs that we shared together. I want to talk
to that interview so you guys can take a look
at what she had to say moments after she wrapped
up her speech here in Dallas. We are here in
Dallas at the Young Women's Leadership Summit with Monica Page,
White House Correspondent. Monica, you just walked off the stage
during your speech. I was so inspired, so impressed. What
was it like being on stage looking out at the sea.

Speaker 8 (02:26:26):
Of young women.

Speaker 4 (02:26:26):
You are such an inspiration.

Speaker 5 (02:26:28):
Thank you so much. Well, it was.

Speaker 27 (02:26:29):
It's definitely quite an experience unlike anything I've ever experienced before.
Because this is my first Young Women's Leadership Summit, my
first summit, my first time speaking at an event like this.
The energy in the room is so inspiring and powerful,
and you can just feel a lot of these girls
that maybe don't really know either where they want to
go or what direction they.

Speaker 5 (02:26:48):
Want to be in.

Speaker 27 (02:26:49):
But as long as my story can help inspire somebody.
I'm so happy to do that because my story is
so interesting, being from being bullied in school and like
such a low point in my life to now being
at the White House. If there's anything that I could
do or say to encourage these girls to keep going
and don't stop and don't take no for an answer,
you know, I'm just so happy to do it.

Speaker 5 (02:27:09):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 8 (02:27:10):
You know, there's so many challenges that young.

Speaker 7 (02:27:12):
Women, especially in media today face. You brought up bullying
that you had to experience when you were in school.
Talk to me more about those challenges that you've had
to overcome in your media career.

Speaker 5 (02:27:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (02:27:23):
Well, much like being bullied in school, a lot of
what happens at the White House is kind of like
an adult version of that, unfortunately, where you're dealing with
different kinds of personalities, different kinds of you know, mindsets
that don't align with yours, and making you seem like
the villain when you're not, at the end of the day,
just trying to do your job and kind of threading
that needle between Okay, let me just keep my head
down and keep my focus and don't lose sight of

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what's important while also trying to deal with these people.
It could be very challenging. So that's that's like the
huge challenge that I face at the White House every
single day and in the media sphere as well.

Speaker 26 (02:27:53):
And you know, there's always a competition.

Speaker 27 (02:27:55):
There's always somebody, not somebody that's always out to get you.
But it can certainly feel that way, especially in a
space that is so competitive and who's going to.

Speaker 26 (02:28:03):
Get the interview and who's going to get the scoop
and who's going to.

Speaker 5 (02:28:05):
Get the exclusive.

Speaker 27 (02:28:06):
It's me over this other person, and it's a constant competition,
could be a constant battle, and it can be exhausting.

Speaker 26 (02:28:11):
But if as long as you keep your focus.

Speaker 27 (02:28:13):
Keep reminding yourself of what is important, you will get
the job done.

Speaker 5 (02:28:17):
And through God too.

Speaker 27 (02:28:18):
I owe a lot of it to God to make
sure that I am taken care of and my hard
work is always being paid off.

Speaker 8 (02:28:25):
Wow, that is really really good advice, Monica.

Speaker 7 (02:28:27):
You know, this is a very different White House than
what we saw over the past four years, and I
can understand, you know, that competition that you bring up,
because there's just more people there. They're letting so many
more conservative voices into the press briefing room. Talk to
us about that and how this administration is so transparent,
so different than what we saw under Joe Biden in the.

Speaker 4 (02:28:45):
Past four years.

Speaker 27 (02:28:46):
I'm glad you mentioned that too, because with the rise
of new media, it's like double the amount of people
in the press briefing room as it was in the
previous administration. The previous administration, there were some empty seats.

Speaker 26 (02:28:55):
I can just steal the seat. I used to steal
the Boston Globe seat.

Speaker 27 (02:28:57):
Sorry, Boston Globe. I used to sit and try and
get called on by Karine Jean Pierre. It would never happen.
But now good luck finding a little piece of carpet
to stand on in that press briefing room because it
is jam packed. And what's great is that just because
you have a seat in the briefing room doesn't mean
or I was gonnet called on. And under the previous
administration it kind of bred a sense of elitism among

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the reporters where just because I have a seat means
I'm always gonna get called on or I'm always going to.

Speaker 26 (02:29:22):
Get an exclusive. And that's not the case anymore.

Speaker 27 (02:29:24):
Everything is flipped where I can go in the back
and I can ask a question, I can ask for clarity,
ask for more notes and information pertaining to a specific
bill or a policy, and they're so happy to print
it right on spot and give it to me and
be like, Okay, here you go.

Speaker 5 (02:29:37):
All the information that I need from the.

Speaker 27 (02:29:39):
White House, I always get, and I always trust that
it's good information too, because it's coming straight from the source,
coming straight from the White House.

Speaker 26 (02:29:45):
So I don't need to jump through with the hurdles
that I previously.

Speaker 27 (02:29:47):
Had to to even try and get an interview or
a quote a comment from the Press Secretary.

Speaker 5 (02:29:54):
I can just go right back into.

Speaker 27 (02:29:55):
The office and say, hey, can I schedule a meeting? Sure,
so you know what time? And it's a night and
day difference.

Speaker 5 (02:30:00):
It really is.

Speaker 9 (02:30:01):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (02:30:01):
I could only imagine, Monica, you are doing such a
phenomenal job there in DC.

Speaker 4 (02:30:05):
At the White House will.

Speaker 7 (02:30:06):
Continue to very closely monitor your reporting. Before we wrap
this up, is there, what is your message to the
young women here in Dallas? Anything else that you'd like
to say before we let you go.

Speaker 27 (02:30:14):
Don't take no for an answer, Never take no for
an answer, And if you want something badly enough, you
will always get it. You can literally do anything that
you want in this world if you put your mind
to it and keep your faith in God and always
pry on it.

Speaker 26 (02:30:26):
And that's I think that's the best piece of advice.

Speaker 4 (02:30:28):
Well, I'm inspired.

Speaker 7 (02:30:29):
I think you missed and always take the Boston Globe seat.
Yes that too, all right, Monica Page, thank you so
much for stopping by.

Speaker 11 (02:30:35):
Thanks.

Speaker 7 (02:30:40):
What a pleasure to talk with Monica after her speech.
She is so fun, so down to earth, really is
doing great work to try to make America great again.
Ask the right questions in the press briefing room. She
just a great conversation Alison and Michelle. She's very inspiring
and I look forward every time that we bring her
on Real America's Voice.

Speaker 5 (02:31:00):
Oh she's terrific.

Speaker 6 (02:31:01):
I mean, really is so smart and funny, and I
would be really interested on to hear some of her
experiences with KGP Oh.

Speaker 5 (02:31:13):
Okay, that's a pie. That's a phenomenal. That's actually a
great question.

Speaker 6 (02:31:17):
Yeah, because I mean for someone who you know, she
gave a little information about what it was like to
be there under Biden and now to be there under
President Trump. I mean, what a stark contrast to be
sitting there and have empty seats in the room, no
one you know, telling you anything, and then all of
a sudden, not being able to stand, not to not

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to you know, have any anywhere to really sit in
the room.

Speaker 19 (02:31:44):
Well, not only that, but let's remember her blatant lies
when she got up onto the podium, and then reporters
would try to question it, and she would get angry
and actually storm off.

Speaker 5 (02:31:55):
Of the podium. I mean, we are talking about two
very different and iistrations.

Speaker 19 (02:32:00):
But speaking of our next speaker is coming out on
stage right now, Congresswoman Nancy Mace. She is a trail
blazer in Washington, a strong voice for liberty, and the
first woman to graduate from the Citadel's Court a Cadets.

Speaker 5 (02:32:13):
Let's an ending message.

Speaker 34 (02:32:16):
Good afternoon, Turning Point, USA. Good afternoon Texas, where real women,
only real women wear skirts?

Speaker 35 (02:32:30):
Right, a room full of women wearing skirts?

Speaker 5 (02:32:34):
You laugh, but I wish I were kidding.

Speaker 35 (02:32:36):
That's where we are in twenty twenty five, where democrat men.

Speaker 11 (02:32:40):
And mentally illmen don't know how to.

Speaker 35 (02:32:43):
Define a woman, but you ladies do. And we have
left leaning women in Suburbia pretending they're not offended when
we all know deep down inside they're offended. Well not
in this room, not today, not with young conservative women
like each and every one of you. And I have

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seen some great boots today. I've got mine on with bows.
I wore them just for you. I do want to
talk about Minnesota this morning, and I'm going to ask that.

Speaker 11 (02:33:14):
We all bow our heads and saw. I'm thirty four eighteen.

Speaker 35 (02:33:18):
The Lord is close to those who are broken hearted,
and this morning State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband
were tragically killed. Senator John Hoffman and his wife were
also shot.

Speaker 4 (02:33:29):
And I hope.

Speaker 35 (02:33:30):
Whoever did this, this murderer is prosecuted, found to prosecuted
to the fullest extident of the law, even if that
means a firing squad.

Speaker 11 (02:33:38):
This guy deserves it because there.

Speaker 35 (02:33:40):
Is no place for political violence in this country.

Speaker 11 (02:33:48):
I'm so excited to be here.

Speaker 12 (02:33:50):
The last time I.

Speaker 35 (02:33:51):
Was at a turning point event, a tranny snuck in
the room and tried to pick up a fern and.

Speaker 5 (02:33:58):
Throw it at me.

Speaker 35 (02:34:00):
I'm glad to see there are no ferns up here
and no.

Speaker 4 (02:34:02):
Men in skirts.

Speaker 11 (02:34:03):
So God bless each and every one of you.

Speaker 35 (02:34:05):
I'm now honored to be here I want to thank
Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk is a real man who stands
up for women, because we all know real men protect
their women and girls. Today is the Holy Trinity of
American greatness. It's Flag Day if you didn't know.

Speaker 11 (02:34:26):
It's also the.

Speaker 35 (02:34:27):
Two d and fiftieth birthday of the United States Army.
And lastly, it is the birthday of the greatest president
in American history.

Speaker 18 (02:34:40):
Donald J.

Speaker 11 (02:34:41):
Trump.

Speaker 35 (02:34:46):
And a timelight literally today last weekend the week before that,
when our nation feels divided, cars burning in streets, members
of Congress assaulting ice officers, and Act This judges stopping deportations,
I'm reminded that politics does not define who we are

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our values. Our values define who we are, and God
transcends all politics.

Speaker 11 (02:35:19):
And I've tripped a little bit.

Speaker 35 (02:35:22):
I was once a young girl in a seat right
in front of you. I was once you when I
was a young woman, and I stumbled quite a bit.
Some might say I jumped off a clip a couple
times without a parachute. But it's okay because I recognize
that God carried me out of the messages I sometimes created,

(02:35:45):
and so I never gave up on me despite the challenges,
but most importantly, my family didn't give up on me,
and God never gave up on me, because God carried
me through all those tough moments. So growing up, if
you were scared of my dad's bark, he's a retired general,
you knew not to mess with my mom's bite. She
was a retired teacher. I know some of you might

(02:36:06):
have teacher moms. I know what that's like. At the
age of seventeen, I learned that dropping out of high
school might not.

Speaker 11 (02:36:12):
Have been the best idea.

Speaker 35 (02:36:15):
I don't recommend it, but I did it once, and
my parents said, if you stop going to school, you
have to start going to work. So I decided that
the brilliant and best idea would be to go to
work at the waffle house. So that was my first job,
waiting tables at a waffle house on the side of
the road.

Speaker 11 (02:36:33):
Who's been to a waffle house?

Speaker 13 (02:36:35):
Where are you?

Speaker 12 (02:36:35):
Guys?

Speaker 11 (02:36:36):
There you are?

Speaker 35 (02:36:38):
I swear if they had waffle house waitresses at the border,
that thing would be one hundred percent secure. Those girls
are tough. So Dinny's was a little too high brow.
That's why I went to waffle house. And while waffle
House was an important part of my journey.

Speaker 11 (02:36:53):
It would not be my destination. So I soon went.

Speaker 35 (02:36:56):
From making waffles to making history. Six years ago, I
graduated as the first woman from the Citadel, the Military
College of South Carolina.

Speaker 11 (02:37:12):
This is a college.

Speaker 35 (02:37:13):
Campus where we don't burn the American flag, We salute it.

Speaker 11 (02:37:21):
The Citadel was tough.

Speaker 35 (02:37:23):
It broke me down and built me back up. But
ultimately it gave me the bravery and it gave me
the boldness I would later need to take on life's challenges.

Speaker 11 (02:37:33):
And some of those times, it gave.

Speaker 35 (02:37:35):
Me the boldness to take ontist lunatics in Congress, like
Jasmine Crockett, like Kim Chadall, like George Stephanopoulos. But that
boldness got me where I am today. The left is
trying its best to set the women's movement back one

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hundred years, and you know who's going to save it.

Speaker 5 (02:38:00):
Conservative women.

Speaker 35 (02:38:02):
Young conservative women, Each and every one of you in
this room today are going to save women and our history.
I was the first Republican woman ever elected to Congress
from the state of South Carolina. That was one hundred

(02:38:22):
That was just four years ago, one hundred years after
we got the right to vote conservative women refuse to
be lectured by people who think there.

Speaker 11 (02:38:31):
Are two genders. We're not going to do that.

Speaker 5 (02:38:33):
We won't be.

Speaker 35 (02:38:34):
Shamed or bullied by those who think it's a good
idea to force underage girls to undress in a locker
room in front of grown men. We won't do that either.
These are the same people who believe that men can
get pregnant.

Speaker 11 (02:38:47):
Can you believe that? How crazy is that?

Speaker 4 (02:38:50):
These are the same people who want.

Speaker 35 (02:38:52):
Men to compete against our girls against you, and sports
against you, for your scholarships, against you, for.

Speaker 11 (02:38:58):
Your slots to get into college.

Speaker 35 (02:39:00):
These are the same people who refuse to denounce radical Islamis,
who would gladly take and impose.

Speaker 11 (02:39:06):
Sharia law on each and every one of us.

Speaker 35 (02:39:10):
Some women carry mace in their pocketbook to protect themselves,
but I want you to know this. All women in
this room today have mace in Congress, and.

Speaker 11 (02:39:21):
I'll use it.

Speaker 35 (02:39:23):
So I'm I will always hold the line when it
comes to protecting women and girls Like some of you
in this room.

Speaker 11 (02:39:30):
I'm a survivor.

Speaker 35 (02:39:32):
Last year, I was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder
or PTSD. To women who can relate, I want you
to know that you have a friend and a sister
and me. And I met a young woman backstage a
little bit ago who was in tears sharing her story.
And I want you to know that your story is
my story. Your tears are my tears, your pain is

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my pain, and your worry.

Speaker 11 (02:39:58):
Is my worry.

Speaker 35 (02:39:59):
Just because I'm in Congress doesn't mean I haven't been
right where you are today.

Speaker 11 (02:40:03):
But I want you to know that you have a
friend and a.

Speaker 35 (02:40:05):
Sister and me, and I'm going to fight like hell
for each and every one of you. Any woman who's
experienced this kind of trauma shouldn't have to explain, well,
we don't want to be forced to shower next to
a man.

Speaker 11 (02:40:24):
This is not a privilege. This is us as women.

Speaker 4 (02:40:28):
This is our god given right.

Speaker 35 (02:40:31):
I will never be in the knee to perverts, and
neither should you.

Speaker 5 (02:40:36):
And I'm serious on that one.

Speaker 35 (02:40:38):
Being nice is what got us here today. So guess
what Nancy Mace is done?

Speaker 11 (02:40:44):
Being nice?

Speaker 35 (02:40:48):
Who's sleeping better? Knowing that Donald Trump is in the
White House?

Speaker 5 (02:40:51):
Where are we at? Where we go?

Speaker 35 (02:40:55):
Donald Trump's Donald Trump's detractors did everything they could to
try to stop him.

Speaker 11 (02:41:02):
They impeached him, they raided his home.

Speaker 35 (02:41:06):
They indicted him, they even shot him and tried to
do it a second time. But guess what, no one
could stop Donald J.

Speaker 11 (02:41:16):
Trump.

Speaker 35 (02:41:17):
And you know why, because God carried Trump. They say
that President Trump hates women.

Speaker 11 (02:41:26):
They say the guy hates women, but guess what.

Speaker 35 (02:41:28):
He was the first president in American history to hire
a female chief of staff and Susie Wiles. His cabinet
and his secretaries are full of women. You have Attorney
General Pam BONDI, you have Linda McMahon in education. You
have Tolci Gabbard at d and I you have Secretary

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of Homeland Security Christy.

Speaker 11 (02:41:52):
Nome, who just defeated a.

Speaker 35 (02:41:54):
State a senator from California who tried to bum brush
the stage.

Speaker 5 (02:41:58):
She is a tough cookie.

Speaker 35 (02:42:01):
Conservative women, we are tough women and make sure nobody
forgets it. So when I was first elected, I was
told if I didn't fall in.

Speaker 11 (02:42:09):
Line, then I wouldn't fit in Boy were they right.

Speaker 35 (02:42:16):
I didn't come to Congress to make friends. I came
to Congress to make a difference. I came to Congress
to hold the line. And when you're the first woman
to sit in the barber chair at the citadel, getting
all of your hair chopped off except for one inch

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right on top and tapered around the sides in the back,
looking like a man.

Speaker 11 (02:42:44):
You don't get offended if you don't get.

Speaker 35 (02:42:46):
Invited to the cocktail parties in Washington, DC, when you've.

Speaker 11 (02:42:51):
Had a face full of.

Speaker 35 (02:42:52):
Mud getting yelled at saying ten more pushups. You don't
get your feelings shirt if you don't have any friends
in DC.

Speaker 4 (02:42:59):
And let me tell you I don't have.

Speaker 5 (02:43:01):
Any friends in DC.

Speaker 11 (02:43:02):
They said, if you want a friend, get a dog.
Her name is Liberty.

Speaker 35 (02:43:05):
So, by the way, A plugged for Liberty. She couldn't
be here today, but she loves freedom, the Constitution, and bacon.

Speaker 11 (02:43:12):
When you see her, please tell her and bring her retreat.
I've never been good at following the rules.

Speaker 35 (02:43:18):
I fired a sanctuary sheriff in South Carolina last year
when nearly every other Republican lawmaker in my state stood silent,
stood by quietly, and let her release criminal illegal aliens
who were rapists and murderers and pedophiles out onto the
streets of South Carolina.

Speaker 11 (02:43:40):
You know what I did.

Speaker 35 (02:43:41):
I used my conservative voice, I used this microphone.

Speaker 11 (02:43:44):
I gave speeches.

Speaker 35 (02:43:46):
I let the world know how bad it was. And
in a blue county in South Carolina, the Democrat sheriff
got booted out of office.

Speaker 11 (02:44:00):
When Donald Trump was shot.

Speaker 35 (02:44:03):
I quickly forced the Secret Service director, Kim Cheatle out
when she came to Congress and decided to lie to
the Oversight Committee.

Speaker 11 (02:44:15):
And if you need a reminder.

Speaker 35 (02:44:17):
How I love and enjoy holding the line. It was
on ABC News on George Stephanopolis's program.

Speaker 11 (02:44:23):
Where my young daughter was with me that day. I
hit back, and I taught him a lesson.

Speaker 35 (02:44:30):
I taught him a fifteen million dollar lesson in the truth,
because Donald Trump won fifteen million dollars in that defamation
suit from that interview. Now every media hack in America
knows I don't play when it comes to Donald Trump. Now,
don't tell the president this. I don't want a commission.

Speaker 11 (02:44:46):
I mean it'd be nice. That's not what I want.

Speaker 35 (02:44:48):
I want when he uses that money for the Presidential Library.
I just want my name over the door of one
of the female bathrooms. Like that's it, like women only,
that's it. So if I'm not being clear enough, let
me give a message to the swamp today. You can't
cancel what God created and the line has been drawn

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with conservatives, and we will hold it. We will carry
that line as God has carried each.

Speaker 11 (02:45:15):
And every one of us.

Speaker 35 (02:45:18):
Now, when I walk the historic halls of Congress, I'm
still the same girl from the waffle house.

Speaker 11 (02:45:25):
I'm no different.

Speaker 35 (02:45:26):
And while I may have traded in my apron for
a dress, my job is still the same. I still
go to work each and every day to serve each
and every one of you conservative women. Though today, tomorrow,
and the next day we are just getting started. Conservative women,
we don't need pity, we need a microphone. We're not retreating,

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we're not apologizing, and we're not negotiating with woke.

Speaker 11 (02:45:55):
We in this room today we are going to hold
the line.

Speaker 35 (02:46:00):
Scripture Ecclesiastes four to twelve talks about the three stranded rope.
And with three strands of rope, one is easily overpowered.
With two, you can fight back to back, and while
you might be successful some of the time, you can
fail most of the time. And until you have a
three stranded rope holded and united, held in united together,

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you are undefeatable. So when we talk about that three
stranded rope, we're talking about faith. We're talking about our family,
We're talking about freedom, and with that three stranded rope,
we as conservative.

Speaker 11 (02:46:35):
Women, we are unstoppable.

Speaker 35 (02:46:39):
So the world is watching us today and we must
show them what we're made of.

Speaker 5 (02:46:44):
We're building the.

Speaker 35 (02:46:45):
Station back with our heads a bout in prayer before
God and our feet standing before tyrants. So I stand
before you today, not just as a congresswoman, not just
as a survivor, but as the daughter of a king,
just like each and every one of you, And just
as Trump quickly rose to his feet with a defiant
fist in the air in Butler Township, Pennsylvania when he

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was shot, America and our conservative women are rising too.

Speaker 11 (02:47:14):
We will be courageous, we will be resilient. We are
going to be united across the country, and we're going
to be prepared to take on the challenges of this moment.

Speaker 35 (02:47:26):
May God bless you, May God bless your daughters. May
God bless Dallas, Texas, and may God bless.

Speaker 11 (02:47:32):
The United States of America. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:47:41):
Hey, We'll do questions.

Speaker 6 (02:47:43):
We'll do Q and A.

Speaker 11 (02:48:05):
Don't be shy.

Speaker 2 (02:48:09):
My gosh, Hi, my name's Vivian.

Speaker 36 (02:48:13):
I'm a student at Troy University and I'm nineteen years old.
I'm very interested in getting involved in politics, and I
would just ask for some advice.

Speaker 2 (02:48:22):
How would you.

Speaker 36 (02:48:23):
Recommend getting started in a world that's so conflicted like
it is today.

Speaker 35 (02:48:29):
Well, the first start, first start at your age, would
be an internship. So you could do it on like
the government side, with someone who's an elected office, state
House reps and most states always need help managing.

Speaker 11 (02:48:41):
Their offices because they have less staff.

Speaker 35 (02:48:42):
So you have, like the state legislature, you get intern with,
or if you can get in a congressional office like
my office, we take all the interns we can.

Speaker 5 (02:48:49):
We get a thousand phone calls a day.

Speaker 35 (02:48:51):
We need help, you know, getting back to constituents and everything.
So my recommendation is to intern with an elected official,
maybe we're near your college campus or.

Speaker 11 (02:49:00):
Your hometown over the summers, to get involved there.

Speaker 35 (02:49:02):
And if you didn't want to do that, or you
did that and you loved it, volunteering on a campaign,
because it's one thing when you're an elected office to
execute the office. It's another to get elected. It's a
little bit messier. You're knock indoors, you're making phone calls,
you're texting friends, you're putting out yard science.

Speaker 4 (02:49:18):
It's hard work to see.

Speaker 35 (02:49:20):
The other side of it of how hard it is.

Speaker 11 (02:49:22):
To get into office.

Speaker 35 (02:49:23):
But we do know that when women participate, women win
when women run.

Speaker 11 (02:49:28):
So good luck to you.

Speaker 5 (02:49:30):
Yeah, yes, high Congress women. I'm a resident of South
Carolina and I.

Speaker 11 (02:49:36):
Just went amazing, thank you.

Speaker 13 (02:49:38):
I wanted to ask you.

Speaker 37 (02:49:39):
What do you think is one of the most important
issues for South Carolina at the moment?

Speaker 35 (02:49:43):
Oh goodness, we have several right now. We have the
highest state income tax in the southeast at six point
two percent. We're a conservative state and we have the highest,
so that really hurts us from people coming in and
doing business in South Carolina and the state growing. Secondly,
we've had an issue with the legal immigran in Charleston
County last year. I was practically the only person that

(02:50:04):
got her out of office. We had a sanctuary shaff
in a conservative state where nobody was standing.

Speaker 11 (02:50:09):
Up to her. I sit up to her and I
got her unelected.

Speaker 5 (02:50:11):
Women and girls.

Speaker 35 (02:50:12):
I just exposed Clemson University and University of South Carolina
for having thirteen to fifteen genders on their forms on
their applications for college. Oh no, and when I did
a video on Twitter in TikTok.

Speaker 4 (02:50:26):
They took it down within hours.

Speaker 35 (02:50:28):
Coastal Carolina, I know the university were promoting cross dressing
on their website. I posted about it on X and TikTok.
They took it down in a few hours. So that's
a big issue. Our justice system protecting women and girls
is huge. We have pedophiles who we in Charleston County.
We've got pedophile more pedophiles out than.

Speaker 11 (02:50:47):
In jail right now in our state. We have a huge.

Speaker 35 (02:50:50):
Problem being dismissed, these cases being dismissed or you know
that sort of thing. And so education, women, kids, education,
school choice is a big one too.

Speaker 11 (02:51:00):
We don't focus enough on vocation. Thank you.

Speaker 9 (02:51:07):
Hi.

Speaker 29 (02:51:08):
So I am a high school student in Massachusetts and
I attend a very liberal school, and there was an
issue for me personally. I thought it was an issue
with the girls soccer team, where in the locker rooms
we had a transgender woman or a man changing.

Speaker 4 (02:51:24):
With us before every practice.

Speaker 5 (02:51:26):
And when you're kidding me, no, I'm not.

Speaker 29 (02:51:28):
I wish I was, But when I spoke to my
fellow students and some parents.

Speaker 4 (02:51:33):
Everybody thought that it was fine.

Speaker 29 (02:51:35):
How would you advise that I go about this.

Speaker 35 (02:51:37):
Oh, that is definitely not okay. I mean that's grooming,
and that's sexual abuse. That's sexual violence. In my perspective,
being forced to change in a room where there's a man,
where there's a male like, that's just not okay.

Speaker 4 (02:51:49):
I probably would not. My advice is probably terrible.

Speaker 5 (02:51:52):
It would be to very publicly shame the school. But
sometimes you can't do that. But if you had an
army of.

Speaker 35 (02:51:58):
Women with you, you can do anything. That's why it's
hard to do it when you're alone. When we have
a group of women supporting you, you can do anything
and you'll be unstoppable.

Speaker 29 (02:52:07):
So how would you recommend that I find that group
of women in a very liberal high school and state likeness.

Speaker 35 (02:52:13):
I will look for fellow Turning Point USA members for
Moms for Liberty, those kind of groups that are hardcore
conservative school board members that might be conservative.

Speaker 4 (02:52:22):
Even it's just one or two those.

Speaker 11 (02:52:23):
Moms, you can have an army of moms and take
it on. Thank you.

Speaker 37 (02:52:30):
Why do you think so many people are quick to
accept men and women's spaces these days when it actively
harms women.

Speaker 35 (02:52:38):
While political violence is real, I will tell you in
the four years since I was elected to Congress. My
property has been vandalized multiple times. I get death threats
every day. And if you live in fear, meaning you
don't live in obeying God and your Christ, you know, Christ,
our savior, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 11 (02:52:54):
If you don't have that kind of faith, that kind
of compass, you don't take on, the fear.

Speaker 35 (02:53:00):
Is sort of you know, shrink back and you do
what's the easiest thing to do, which is to play
Kate too crazy people. I won't do that, which is
why I get in a lot of fights. I mean,
I've told Jasmine Crockett to take it outside for good reason, right,
but but I'm mean it in well meaning, being well
meaning in it. But you got to have people that

(02:53:20):
are going willing, willing to stand up, and it's hard
when you're getting death threats.

Speaker 11 (02:53:23):
But I don't, I don't care.

Speaker 35 (02:53:24):
I'm gonna do the right thing be as God's by
my side. Thank you so much, and God bless you.
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (02:53:42):
Very powerful speech by Congresswoman Nancy Mace.

Speaker 5 (02:53:46):
Actually, I thought it was one of her best.

Speaker 6 (02:53:48):
Speeches because it was very I thought modulated.

Speaker 5 (02:53:52):
I thought she spoke a lot.

Speaker 6 (02:53:54):
Of truth, but very sensitive and certainly starting off with
a prayer for the lawmaker in Minnesota who was shot
this morning.

Speaker 19 (02:54:06):
Yeah, and speaking of to that point, that man hunt
still underway at the moment. As this was a politically
motivated attack, We're going to be following that story as
well and continuing to give you the details as we
get them as well. Let's also bring in Emily Finn. Emily,
you are there in the crowd with everyone. You're seeing

(02:54:27):
people walk by at the very least. What was the
reaction to Congresswoman Mace's speech.

Speaker 7 (02:54:32):
Today, Well, Congressoman Mace was one of the top speakers
that all of the young women here were so looking
forward to listening to. And I can completely understand why
as a female politician, we see so many women, you know,
in politics in DC that really just they seem like
they have a sense of a fakeness to them, right,

(02:54:52):
like they aren't down to earth like Congressoman Mace. I
so respected and appreciated her talking about her first job
at the waffle house and how that really shaped her
perspective as a woman as a person. She was encouraging
conservative women to speak up, which has been an ongoing
theme throughout all of the speeches that we've been hearing
here in Dallas throughout the weekends, encouraging conservative women to

(02:55:15):
speak up, make their voice, their values and opinion heard.

Speaker 8 (02:55:18):
As you brought up, Allison, she.

Speaker 7 (02:55:19):
Also cited Scripture multiple times throughout her speech. I think
that is so refreshing that this is a community where
if you love Jesus, you can be proud of that,
you can cite the Bible, you can talk about that
with a large group of young women that shared those
same faith based values.

Speaker 8 (02:55:35):
She was taking some.

Speaker 7 (02:55:36):
Questions from the young women here, and like I said,
I just really appreciate how down to earth she is.
You can tell that she is very genuine and transparent
taking questions and really genuine about her advice to the
young women here in Dallas.

Speaker 8 (02:55:50):
Michelle and Allison, Yeah, you.

Speaker 6 (02:55:52):
Don't have to wonder how she feels about issues. Essays
it like it is, and I certainly appreciate that, and
also how candid she is about things that have happened
to her in her own life. She said she's a survivor,
and she was talking about speaking with a survivor behind stage,
and and that she's really there for the other young

(02:56:14):
women as someone who's been.

Speaker 4 (02:56:17):
Through some really tough times in her life.

Speaker 5 (02:56:20):
Well, I do believe we might spend Congresswoman. Go ahead, Emily,
go ahead, Emily.

Speaker 7 (02:56:28):
I was just going to say, you know, Congressman Mace
has been such an advocate for women's sports and for
not allowing transgenders to participate in women's sports. And we
do have Riley Gaines taking the stage later tonight. She's
been an activist for that very cause as well. So
just wanting to give a little preview to Riley. But
Michelle toss it.

Speaker 8 (02:56:45):
To the stage. Who is coming up here?

Speaker 16 (02:56:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:56:47):
Yeah, I'm excited for that one, Emily.

Speaker 19 (02:56:48):
Right now we have King Johnson, a passionate voice for
conservative values, fearless advocate for the next generation, and.

Speaker 5 (02:56:54):
A rising leader in the movement. Check it out.

Speaker 13 (02:56:57):
It is because of.

Speaker 28 (02:56:58):
This moment we have a brighter future. I actually had
my fourth child, my son Whittaker, with me at the
White House a couple of weeks ago, where we met
RFKA Junior, and I was telling him how thankful I
am that he is out there on the front lines
doing this fight. And I said, we have to think

(02:57:20):
about how did we get here? What has happened that
has brought us to this moment where we are cheering
the destruction in some ways of the Western medical system,
of a system that we have relied on, that has
grown up and in a lot of ways is the
envy of the world, like how did we get here?
So I'm going to take you back a little bit
through my story. I am nurse Kate Johnson. Some of

(02:57:45):
you probably know my husband, Benny Johnson.

Speaker 5 (02:57:50):
He is doing the ultimate.

Speaker 28 (02:57:52):
Father's Day duty by being at home with our three,
our four three twenty month old, so I could be here.
I do have whit occur in the back he's hanging out.

Speaker 4 (02:58:02):
But I started my.

Speaker 28 (02:58:03):
Career off as a critical care nurse in a Level
one trauma center. I took care of the sickness of
the sick patients, the patients that are literally hanging on
by the edge. That is what one of my patients.

Speaker 4 (02:58:16):
Was hooked up to.

Speaker 28 (02:58:17):
I was in charge of all of these medications, all
of this, And when you're working in this world, in
this critical care world, it's really easy to think like
we can do all this, then we can do anything,
like we're incredible. But I started to see patients coming
in who are younger and younger and younger. I started
to notice that I was taking care of thirty five

(02:58:37):
forty year olds who have n stage kidney disease, who
are needing heart transplants because they're in heart failure, who
have had massive heart attacks, who have had strokes. And
I started to ask them, what's happening?

Speaker 5 (02:58:49):
Why are we here?

Speaker 28 (02:58:49):
What is going on in our world that I'm not
taking care of? Like I have gunshot patients and those
kinds of things, but like starting to see this shift
towards people who are literally dying in the prime of
their life. So what is stealing their life from them?
What is happening? So I left bedside and I went

(02:59:12):
to work in primary care. I thought, Okay, this is
where it is. This is what we're gonna do. Primary
care is the answer. If we can get more people
to utilize more primary care, we can get them in
the door, we can diagnose them early, we can help
with early interventions.

Speaker 5 (02:59:25):
Then we can fix this.

Speaker 4 (02:59:27):
We can fix this system.

Speaker 5 (02:59:28):
So I started work.

Speaker 28 (02:59:29):
With Blue Cross Blue Shield, doing work on creating models
essentially that would help people access primary care.

Speaker 5 (02:59:39):
Earlier.

Speaker 28 (02:59:40):
I was sitting in a meeting with a pharmaceutical executive
when She, with a big smile on her face, says,
do you know that ninety cents of every medical dollar
spent from Blue Cross Blue Shield goes to pharmaceuticals? And
she was so happy about that, and I said, oh

(03:00:01):
my god, I felt like somebody had like punched me
in the throat. I couldn't believe that that was what
we were cheering, That we were supposed to be excited
that we are spending ninety percent of our medical dollars
on medication.

Speaker 2 (03:00:20):
That didn't add up to me.

Speaker 28 (03:00:22):
So is what is it that we need this much medication,
that we are so medicalized?

Speaker 4 (03:00:28):
What is this stronghold that.

Speaker 28 (03:00:30):
Pharmaceutical companies have on us? And why are we at
the place where we have this illness burden? So then
I left that and I went to work doing consulting
work for the federal government because I thought, Okay, there
has to be somewhere where we can actually make an
impact from the inside. You know, where can this be?
So I started working for the VA. I did consulting

(03:00:52):
work for them on quality improvement and access to care,
again thinking what we need is more access. If we
can get more people into hospitals, if we can get
more people into doctor's offices. That's going to fix the problem.
Then I had my first daughter in twenty twenty. The
world is exploding, it's COVID, it's everything is a mess,

(03:01:14):
and nobody really has any clear pictures. I thought, the
Western medical system is going to come in and it's
going to save the day. It's going to be the
white night that we need.

Speaker 5 (03:01:24):
Don't worry.

Speaker 28 (03:01:27):
That moment never came.

Speaker 38 (03:01:29):
That never happened.

Speaker 28 (03:01:29):
It only got worse and worse and worse. And as
somebody who truly believed in the Western medical system, because
I had come from this background where we have patients
who were hanging.

Speaker 5 (03:01:42):
On by the thread. When Steve's scalise.

Speaker 28 (03:01:45):
Anybody know who Steve Scalie is When he got shot,
I was one of the trauma nurses who took care
of him.

Speaker 4 (03:01:51):
He was brought into my trauma vase.

Speaker 28 (03:01:53):
Those are the kind of things that we can do
in trauma medicine, in critical care medicine.

Speaker 5 (03:01:58):
But it wasn't.

Speaker 28 (03:02:00):
Answering the question that we had in front of us.
And so I started to really step out, step back
and look at the system and say, what is the answer.

Speaker 5 (03:02:09):
Where are we going?

Speaker 28 (03:02:10):
Because the current illness burden in America is overwhelming, and
it's getting worse. We're moving to a place where we're
not seeing improvements, We're seeing a decline.

Speaker 4 (03:02:22):
We're seeing we're seeing.

Speaker 5 (03:02:24):
Mortality age drop. So for the first time ever, we are.

Speaker 28 (03:02:30):
Not expected to live as long as our parents lived.
That's never happened before in American history.

Speaker 4 (03:02:36):
So what is going on?

Speaker 28 (03:02:37):
Seventy five percent of Americans twenty five or older, overweight
or obese.

Speaker 5 (03:02:41):
Forty percent have.

Speaker 28 (03:02:42):
To diagnosed chronic health conditions. Chronic health conditions being things
like diabetes, hypertension, heart failure. Largely chronic health conditions are
actually preventable. We have twenty seven percent of Americans thirteen
and older have depression or anxiety that is diagnosed. Sixty

(03:03:04):
five percent of Americans take a prescription medication every day.
Ninety three percent are not metabolically healthy. Only seven percent
of Americans qualify meet the statistics for being metabolically healthy.
And we are at a point where we're in crisis.
That's why these moments with RKA saying make America healthy again,

(03:03:26):
That's why it resonates. That's why I'm standing in a
room with the people who made this election happen. Who've
turned this election for Donald Trump because we heard that
message as women, as moms, we heard that message of
make America healthy again, and it resonated inside of us because.

Speaker 5 (03:03:42):
We know that we are sick.

Speaker 4 (03:03:44):
We feel that.

Speaker 28 (03:03:45):
And maybe you can't put your finger on exactly what's
wrong or exactly why this is happening, but we're desperate
for answers. We're desperate to not have our children have
to live with a disease burden that looks like this.
I mean, if we have this is our future, then
this is really sad. This isn't America, This isn't the
American dream. If you are not healthy, nothing else really matters.

(03:04:07):
If you become sick, that's the only thing you think about,
that's the only thing you're worried about. John ten Ten
tells us that the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy,
But God Jesus came to give us life and give
it more abundantly. So why are we being stripped of
our abundant life? Why are being stripped of living life
to the fullest. Because living with a chronic condition, you're

(03:04:30):
not living.

Speaker 4 (03:04:30):
Life to the fullest.

Speaker 28 (03:04:32):
You're not able to fulfill your purpose, your mission, your
destiny if you are burdened by chronic illness. I realized
now that I have four kids, now that I've been
on all sides of the medical system, I've seen it
from every angle, from private, public, inside, outside, literally hands

(03:04:55):
in it, that the answer is mom's. That mothers are
the heart of the home. That you are where health
comes from. You are where it emanates from. And if
you're not a mom yet, you will be. And you
need to be thinking about this and prioritizing it now.

(03:05:16):
You need to be paving the way for a healthy family.

Speaker 4 (03:05:19):
Now.

Speaker 28 (03:05:19):
We understand fundamentally that we need to be able to
pass on healthy emotional and mental health to our kids,
but nobody ever really talks about passing on healthy physical
health and how these things are so interconnected that you
can't actually separate them. That you can't have a healthy
mental and emotional health if you don't have a healthy

(03:05:43):
physical body within your capabilities. There are things that are
out of our control. There are things that we can't
do anything about, but there's a lot that we do
have control over, and of those things as moms, as mothers,
as women, we need to take the lead and really
own that part of motherhood. A healthy mother directly impacts

(03:06:04):
the health of her family. This has been shown in
research over and over again. You would think, in some
ways that it would be dads, the health of a
father who's more impactful. Maybe they see dad running or
weightlifting or eating steak, But actually statistics say that it's mom.
Is when kids see mom model these behaviors, that they

(03:06:27):
actually adopt them, that they become who they are.

Speaker 5 (03:06:29):
That when kids have a mother.

Speaker 28 (03:06:30):
Who prioritizes her health, that that's when they learn how
to prioritize their health. Maybe that's not the way it
should be, but that's the way it is, and we
need to live in reality in some ways and say, okay,
then that that is mine to own. Ninety percent of
every medical decision for children is made by moms. When
I first saw that, I said that can't be right.

(03:06:52):
And then I thought about my life and I said, yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (03:06:55):
My husband doesn't know who an arkid's doctor is.

Speaker 28 (03:06:58):
He would if he had to take them to the doctor,
he'd have to call me and say, who's the doctor.

Speaker 4 (03:07:03):
He has no idea.

Speaker 28 (03:07:04):
Every You are responsible for so much. That includes everything
from deciding are you going to vaccinate your kids. That
moment when they hand you this brand new baby and
five minutes later they're saying, Okay, here's the vaccine.

Speaker 11 (03:07:20):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 35 (03:07:22):
Do you know?

Speaker 28 (03:07:24):
It's so overwhelming, It's so much information, everything's coming at
you all the time, all at once, and it's so
easy to not be able to take responsibility, to say, well,
there's an expert, there's an.

Speaker 4 (03:07:39):
Expert in the room.

Speaker 11 (03:07:39):
But I'm telling you, the experts have.

Speaker 28 (03:07:40):
Gotten us to a place where we are losing our
health year over year over year. Infertility rates are out
of control. They're rising one percent every year. The number
of people who are struggling with mental health, twenty five
percent of women are on and SSRI are on a

(03:08:03):
medication to help them feel happier. It's really getting to
a place where it's abysmal. So we know that moms
are responsible. This is a big burden, ladies. It's a
big burden, and it's a joyous burden, but it's something
that you need to be prepared for and to educate
yourself on. You make eighty five percent of the food

(03:08:24):
purchasing decisions for your family. That's statistical, that's probably not
even accurate. You actually probably make a lot more of
the food purchasing decisions than that, even.

Speaker 2 (03:08:33):
But that includes are you taking.

Speaker 4 (03:08:34):
Them to a drive through?

Speaker 28 (03:08:36):
What are you going to buy for them at the
grocery store. These decisions are big, and I know that
you see influencers who pop up on their camera and
they're like.

Speaker 4 (03:08:44):
Hey, look at me.

Speaker 2 (03:08:45):
I'm in the grocery store and look at this ingredient label.

Speaker 5 (03:08:49):
Here's all the things that you shouldn't need.

Speaker 28 (03:08:50):
Let me tell you, as a mom with four kids
four and younger, when I'm in the grocery store, I'm
just praying that nobody rips a shelf down, that nobody
burns something down, that like, somebody doesn't throw a glass
on the floor, and I'm like having to clean up.

Speaker 4 (03:09:03):
Marin era and glass. It's it's not realistic.

Speaker 28 (03:09:08):
I'm sorry, it's not realistic to make these decisions in
the grocery store in real time. This stuff is complicated,
it's big, it's heavy. That's why my message to you
is to keep things simple.

Speaker 5 (03:09:24):
You can't.

Speaker 28 (03:09:24):
You have to know the truth though, You have to
understand what you're dealing with. You have to understand the
responsibility that has been placed on you to raise this
next generation. And in a world that is full of
lies and full of nonsense, anybody remember this?

Speaker 4 (03:09:39):
Did you guys see this graph?

Speaker 28 (03:09:42):
So they have the audacity to put this out from
Tufts University, which in my world is one of the
It's like the last word in nutrition research. Okay, there's
a very like snooty, lofty, well educated, lots of letters
behind their name.

Speaker 4 (03:09:56):
People.

Speaker 28 (03:09:57):
They come out with this thing and they have the
audacity to say that lucky charms are healthier than ground beef.

Speaker 2 (03:10:05):
And every mom in America goes like, what what are.

Speaker 5 (03:10:09):
You talking about? This isn't true, Like why are you
lying to me?

Speaker 4 (03:10:14):
Stop lying to me?

Speaker 28 (03:10:15):
And if you're lying to me about this, then what
else are you lying to me about? And where do
I find the truth? The truth is is that you
cannot look outside of your family of yourself. You have
to bring it back to you because your health belongs
to you. And I love RFK Junior, and I love

(03:10:35):
what is happening, and I love this moment.

Speaker 4 (03:10:37):
I am so excited for it.

Speaker 28 (03:10:39):
I actually did my first YWLS presentation in twenty twenty
one on health and wellness and it was like, so
it was such an avarition from what everything else was,
because nobody really understood at that time why health and
wellness really mattered for like politics and policy and the future.

Speaker 5 (03:11:03):
But I could see, because.

Speaker 28 (03:11:03):
I had already worked on the inside, how much we
need to take this back. My speech then was titled,
if you think socialism sucks, you have to own your
health because it belongs to you, not the government, not
RFK Junior, not any of these policy makers who you
might like and you might respect, and you might like
the direction things are going. But I'm telling you in

(03:11:25):
a minute, it can be undone. Anything they can do,
they can take back. But you know what they can't
take back is the decisions that you make for your
family and your home.

Speaker 5 (03:11:35):
It belongs to you.

Speaker 2 (03:11:40):
And unfortunately, the truth is is that policy.

Speaker 28 (03:11:43):
Changes may never come. It may never happen that we
actually get to a place where there is no more
red forty in things.

Speaker 4 (03:11:51):
It may not.

Speaker 28 (03:11:52):
And if that's the case, that's fine, because you're going
to make choices for your family that honor your family's
health and.

Speaker 4 (03:11:59):
It doesn't matter what they do.

Speaker 28 (03:12:01):
But you know what, the more purchasing decisions you make
that reflect your values, reflect this healthy family dynamic that
you are trying to create, the more companies will actually respond,
they'll become more malleable to these, because they respond to
market caps far more than they respond.

Speaker 4 (03:12:20):
To political pressure.

Speaker 5 (03:12:24):
You have to build.

Speaker 28 (03:12:25):
I'm going to run through these super quick because I'm
aways out of time. But you have to build sustainable,
healthy habits for you and your family and guys. This
is basic, simple, but it's not easy. It is not
easy in a world that is trying to constantly push
you away from the foundational things that make you healthy.
You need to go outside. I know, Jenny, your indge

(03:12:46):
was just on your thousand hours outside here though.

Speaker 4 (03:12:49):
It's so funny.

Speaker 28 (03:12:50):
Oh my gosh, that was one of the funny stories
I've ever heard in my life.

Speaker 4 (03:12:54):
You need to go outside. Shine is good for you.

Speaker 28 (03:12:56):
During COVID they try to lock everybody up and prevent
you from going outside.

Speaker 5 (03:13:00):
That was insane.

Speaker 2 (03:13:01):
It was the that's the opposite of what we should
be doing.

Speaker 28 (03:13:05):
You have to eat real food, eat what God made
and the way he made it.

Speaker 4 (03:13:09):
Most of the time.

Speaker 28 (03:13:10):
So when you're in the grocery store and your kids
are trying to rip everything off the shelves, or you're
looking at an ingredient label and it's like now a
dex strone and word you've never seen before.

Speaker 5 (03:13:22):
Skip it.

Speaker 2 (03:13:22):
Just stick with real food, Stick with things that God.

Speaker 28 (03:13:25):
Made in the way he made them most of the time,
and then you know what, On Friday, take your kids
out for pizza and ice cream.

Speaker 4 (03:13:31):
That's what we do.

Speaker 28 (03:13:33):
And don't stress the small stuff. Okay, it's gonna happen.
They're going to get a lollipop that has red.

Speaker 4 (03:13:38):
Forty in it.

Speaker 28 (03:13:39):
It's fine if most of the time you're making these choices,
you must exercise. I did Culture Apothecary with Alex a
couple months ago where we talked.

Speaker 5 (03:13:50):
All about exercise.

Speaker 28 (03:13:53):
And now who is seeing Alex out weightlifting? Yes, she's
owning that. I literally love to see it. You have
to move your body. I started this challenge through my
Instagram where I've had I've sixteen thousand people who've committed
to do who to do one hundred days where they
commit to move their body every single day. Do you

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know how many people I've had over the last four
years that I've been doing this challenge to tell me
that that change their life. It changed their life to
just commit to making exercise a part of their life
one percent, fifteen minutes a day, and from there, so
many things become so much easier. You have to sleep, Okay,
I have four kids, four and younger.

Speaker 9 (03:14:35):
I know.

Speaker 28 (03:14:35):
I know everybody's like, oh, but I can't sleep.

Speaker 2 (03:14:37):
I know, but you have to sleep.

Speaker 28 (03:14:40):
Is when everybody likes to talk about detoxing, right. Sleep
is when your body actually detoxes. This is the moment
that you have to have focus and prioritize this and
make sure this happens for you and your family. And
most important, this is actually the number one most important
thing for your health is Gone out of Harvard That

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was eighty five years looked at all different factors. This
study is thousands and thousands of pages long, looked at
so many different factors of people's health, and the number
one strongest indicator of if somebody was going to be
healthy and have a healthy life was their relationships. Their
ability to build and maintain and culture and nurture relationships.

(03:15:25):
This is a must. That's why it's so important that
you're here. That's why events like this are so so.

Speaker 5 (03:15:31):
Valuable, because you're not just doing this.

Speaker 28 (03:15:35):
To learn somebody about politics or to hear cool speakers.

Speaker 2 (03:15:37):
You're actually doing this for your health, which is so amazing.

Speaker 28 (03:15:46):
It's my little family. Your health belongs to you. You
have to own it, you have to keep it, you
have to pretec fiercely. It is yours and yours alone.
And as a mom, as a woman, it is your
responsibility to make sure that you have equipped your children,

(03:16:11):
your family, and your husband with what they need in
order to live the healthiest lives that they possibly can.
It is not easy. I know it is not easy.
I live it every single day. A lot of days
I hardly make it out of you old pants, because.

Speaker 2 (03:16:25):
It's everything is just a lot.

Speaker 5 (03:16:27):
It's a lot.

Speaker 28 (03:16:28):
It's not easy, but it is your responsibility. And God
designed you to thrive. So if you are not thriving,
take a step back, reevaluate, reassess, and find the ways
that you can start to move your life forward, stepping
out both in faith and health. You are so needed.

(03:16:49):
This generation is so needed. You must be the ones
to carry forward to a healthier future.

Speaker 5 (03:16:56):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (03:17:09):
That was Kelly.

Speaker 6 (03:17:10):
I think she was speaking about holistic health also very important.
A lot of speakers here today talking about health and
what I particularly liked about what she had to say
was really about personal agency, trusting yourself, trusting your gut,
not looking to the government, looking to experts to tell
you what to do, really relying on what you believe

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and what you think is best for yourself and for
your family.

Speaker 5 (03:17:35):
That's what I got.

Speaker 4 (03:17:36):
Out of it.

Speaker 19 (03:17:36):
Well, it's shocking, Allison to think that these massive pharmaceutical
companies that are ultimately killing us might not be the
best person to go to for advice. You know a
lot of really interesting statistics there, including just the rising
cost of obesity and how many people here in the
United States are suffering with that. I also really found
it interesting the link with infertility, as I personally know

(03:17:58):
many women that are struggling with that right now. And
the question remains the same, why are more women struggling
with infertility nowadays?

Speaker 7 (03:18:05):
Emily, I think that's a great question to ask there, Michelle,
and I think that is something that a lot of
the speakers here at the Young Women's Leadership Summit have
been trying to challenge. Right as we were talking about
earlier in the day, women's health has been really ignored
for so long.

Speaker 8 (03:18:21):
I don't think that women's healthcare concerns have.

Speaker 7 (03:18:23):
Really been taken as seriously as they should have been,
and so I think it's great for people like this
to be bringing up those questions and asking, you know,
why is it that women's health hasn't been taken seriously
in the past. You know, we have a lot of
great speakers coming up throughout the rest of the night,
Congresswoman Beth van Duens Here, Monica Page will be taking
the stage again, Senator Angela Paxton, ly La rose Lee

(03:18:46):
Ellen Baker actress, and Riley Gaines too. So I assume
that we are going to probably hear the same sentiment about,
you know, challenging the mainstream, challenging the narrative that is
pushed on young women in society today, in terms of
family values, in terms of healthcare, in terms of career.

(03:19:06):
This is a really inspiring event here in Dallas. Michelle
and Ellison, you.

Speaker 5 (03:19:11):
Know, it's really interesting. You would think that, you know.

Speaker 6 (03:19:14):
The Republican women are conservative, and you can.

Speaker 5 (03:19:16):
Think of it like that, but.

Speaker 6 (03:19:18):
Really, if you drill down, we're really more rebellious. We're
really you know, challenging the status who.

Speaker 5 (03:19:27):
I'm turning that back. That's a good point, actually.

Speaker 6 (03:19:31):
You know, not accepting what's just told to you? Really
being critical thinkers, thinking for yourself, choosing what you want
for your life, not looking to other people to tell
you what to do.

Speaker 4 (03:19:45):
I like that.

Speaker 19 (03:19:46):
Well, now that you brought that up too, I'm looking
at this correlation and you think about it. We are
told to trust the mainstream media. We are told to
take everything that they say for what it is and
trust it and believe in it. But think about the
pharmaceutical companies they are paying out so many politicians. As
we know, the mainstream media, they have their hands in everything.

(03:20:07):
So I guess when you look at it that way,
there is a correlation between just hearing the authoritative voice
right and believing it. And now US conservatives are taking
a step back and realizing maybe there are some nefarious
actions going on.

Speaker 6 (03:20:21):
Yes, And I think also to add on to that,
I think there's another layer as women, because I think
as women were always told to look towards the man,
to listen to the man.

Speaker 5 (03:20:33):
As the authority figure.

Speaker 6 (03:20:35):
And I think so I think that there's another layer there.

Speaker 5 (03:20:39):
I don't know, Emily, give us your feeling back the
layer we're feeling the onion.

Speaker 8 (03:20:45):
Yep, we certainly are.

Speaker 7 (03:20:47):
It's definitely a narrative push in the mainstream media. And you, guys,
I want you to listen into this interview that I
had with investigative reporter from The Daily Caller, Ashley Brassfield.
She's here at the Young Women's Leadership Summit, and she
talked about these issues and also the challenges to kind
of work against the mainstream media narrative as a reporter.
I want you guys to listen into what she had

(03:21:08):
to say. So we are here in Dallas, Texas at
the Young Women's Leadership Summit. Actually, Brassfield has stopped by
to check in and say hello, Ashley, you are such
a pro, such a veteran when it comes to media coverage.
Monica Page turning points White House correspondent is on the
stage right now talking about all of the challenges that
young women in media face today.

Speaker 4 (03:21:30):
What is your thoughts on all of this?

Speaker 7 (03:21:32):
Do you see any challenges for young women in the
media landscape?

Speaker 39 (03:21:36):
Yes, Well, luckily the lead media landscape has opened up
so much over the last few years, specifically thanks to
you know, just a lot of outlets and podcasts across
the country that I've opened that up opportunity up. But yes,
I'm currently am with The Daily Caller. I worked for
RSPN covering the campaign trail, which was very grateful.

Speaker 4 (03:21:52):
For that opportunity.

Speaker 39 (03:21:53):
I got to meet so many amazing people in the
campaign trail. Really, we're supportive of young women in media
and you know, uplifting them. And I know Carle America's
voice does the same, your young woman as well, and
I think we are the future. And then being at
why b LS, we see so many amazing women just
here in front of us right now, and these are
the future of the conservative movement really and even just

(03:22:13):
the MAGA movement in general.

Speaker 4 (03:22:15):
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 7 (03:22:16):
You know, I've been hearing so many conversations today just
because it's so timely with the no Kings protests that
are popping up all over the country today. I know
that there is the big military parade for the Army's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday happening in DC and there's.

Speaker 8 (03:22:31):
Some protests planned there.

Speaker 7 (03:22:32):
I understand that your organization has done some coverage about this.

Speaker 8 (03:22:36):
You'll talk to us about what's going on.

Speaker 7 (03:22:38):
You know, we're here in Dallas and we are being
so inspired by all of these speakers and talking to
all of these young women. But there's some crazy unrest
happening throughout the rest.

Speaker 5 (03:22:47):
Of the country.

Speaker 39 (03:22:47):
Yes, if I believe, over one hundred and eighty protests
across the country with the snow Kings protest, and of
course very timely with the military parade for the Army
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in DC right now.

Speaker 8 (03:22:58):
But we saw this last week in LA with the riots.

Speaker 39 (03:23:00):
That take take we're taking place against ICE agents and
the just unrest that took place, and a lot of
the governors not stepping up to control that, and of
course we saw President Trump stepping in to do so,
and we saw some quarter orders blocking things. But you know,
this is another weekend where it's going to be interesting
to see what happens, and it seems very timely. We've
done a lot of investigative reporting at the Daily Caller,

(03:23:21):
just having investigative reporters on the street actually at the
protests in LA and they were passing out face master
these you know protesters, these rioters that were you know, dangerous,
causing issues with police across the area. And so we've
done a lot of investigative where the Daily Callers cover
this extensively.

Speaker 4 (03:23:38):
Personally, and we are continuing to do that.

Speaker 39 (03:23:40):
We actually have some people out at the No Kings
protests in Arlington, and we'll see what happens in DC.

Speaker 8 (03:23:46):
I think it would be an interesting move.

Speaker 21 (03:23:47):
To do so at a military parade, I must say,
to do that.

Speaker 5 (03:23:50):
But I do believe that we're going to.

Speaker 39 (03:23:52):
Be seeing some things today unfortunately, but hopefully everybody stays safe,
and of course everybody in DC stays safe.

Speaker 26 (03:23:57):
I know that's where I currently lives.

Speaker 5 (03:23:58):
But happy to be here, of course.

Speaker 9 (03:24:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (03:24:01):
You know you brought up President Trump's response to the
Los Angeles anti Ice riots, you know, sending in the
National Guard. He's been receiving a lot of criticism for
that move. I think, you know, from my perspective, from
my opinion, I think he had to do something right.
We've seen such a failure of leadership from Gavin Newsom,
from LA mayor Karen Bass.

Speaker 4 (03:24:19):
He had to step up.

Speaker 7 (03:24:19):
If history means anything, that we're going to fail to
respond to this situation as well. Do you think that
there's going to be any consequences for the President's actions
on this.

Speaker 4 (03:24:28):
We've already seen it playing out in the courts, right.

Speaker 39 (03:24:31):
I do think that We're going to see some movement
on these things, especially with this weekend.

Speaker 4 (03:24:35):
This is going to continue to play out across the country.

Speaker 39 (03:24:37):
We even saw Tim Walton in front of the Oversight
Committee in Congress recently and he had a you know,
he held to the fire a little bit over his
actions even back going in twenty twenty with the rioters
with Black Lives Matter, and this is just a continuous,
you know cycle, it seems like, of the funding and
we continuously have to try and investigate.

Speaker 5 (03:24:53):
I don't think there is enough investigation.

Speaker 39 (03:24:55):
Going on in the background of how they are being funded,
and a lot of them are being funded, so I
think there is a lot of opportunity with journalism, maybe
even with young women.

Speaker 4 (03:25:03):
To look into that further.

Speaker 39 (03:25:05):
Just it's going to continue, in my opinion, completely years
to come.

Speaker 7 (03:25:10):
Completely agree Ashlely. We need those investigations. We need people
like you, young women like you, asking those questions and uncovering things.
Before we wrap this up, I just want to give
you an opportunity to say whatever you'd like to the
young women here in Dallas at the Young Women's Leadership
sum It.

Speaker 39 (03:25:23):
Yeah, well, I always just say put your head down
and work hard. You know, that is how you get
things done as a young woman. You are in respect,
stay humble. I know there's some wonderful young women I've
been able to talk to you so far. We're gonna
have some great interviews, I know, and follow us at
the Daily Caller. I know I'm going to be covering
Congress a lot, so stay tuned for that. Some investigations,
very interesting things coming up with per former President. Biden's

(03:25:44):
a doctor, so stay tuned for that. I think there's
gonna be some interesting things happen with that.

Speaker 7 (03:25:48):
Oh, we will certainly be keeping a close eye. Ashley,
thank you so much for stuppen by.

Speaker 6 (03:25:53):
Well, that was certainly talking about the all Kings protests today.

Speaker 5 (03:25:59):
No Kings tests, no Kings. It's not like it matters.

Speaker 19 (03:26:04):
Just to be quite honest with you, I think I
love these before forgetting Independence Days on July fourth. The
signs outside in fact right downside of the studio have
been quite interesting.

Speaker 5 (03:26:13):
I posted one on my Twitter. Go over there and
check it out if you have a moment. Oh, very interesting.

Speaker 6 (03:26:18):
I mean we're getting close because if we will have
coverage of the parade starting at four pm right here
in real America's voice.

Speaker 5 (03:26:26):
So that's really exciting, and of course.

Speaker 6 (03:26:28):
You know we'll be keeping our eyes on the protest
what's happening.

Speaker 5 (03:26:31):
But right now we want to go back to the stage.

Speaker 6 (03:26:34):
Where we have our next speaker, Holistic Hilda.

Speaker 5 (03:26:37):
She's a natural living.

Speaker 6 (03:26:38):
Expert well this podcast and advocate for ancestral help and
vibrant living.

Speaker 5 (03:26:45):
Let's go to the stage.

Speaker 40 (03:26:47):
Speak in general. So I'm going to share with you,
like I said, these two secrets that I want you
in a little bit to speak how you're going to
apply it to your life.

Speaker 5 (03:26:55):
And if you just apply one of them, you're going.

Speaker 40 (03:26:57):
To be closer to showing up as your most beautiful,
most confident, most strong and healthy self, the best version
of you. This is me in the Omo Valley. Can
you pick me out from the crowd. I'm with some
Ethiopian tribes people the Dassanach, and this is what I've

(03:27:18):
learned whether I was with them or in Australia, or
in Kenya or in.

Speaker 5 (03:27:24):
Ecuadora, Peru.

Speaker 40 (03:27:26):
The indigenous peoples you all spend most of their time
outside Ginnya Rich has already talked about.

Speaker 5 (03:27:32):
This, but let me just tell you something. We have
turned into astronauts. We are living in an artificial.

Speaker 40 (03:27:38):
Environment, disconnected for nature and the sun, and that.

Speaker 5 (03:27:42):
Is the source of nourishment.

Speaker 40 (03:27:43):
This first secret I want to tell you about is
the sun.

Speaker 5 (03:27:46):
Get this.

Speaker 40 (03:27:48):
In every cell in the body there are mitochondria, these
little engines that produce energy, and they get two thirds
of their energy from the sun and one third from food.

Speaker 4 (03:27:58):
I'm going to say that again.

Speaker 40 (03:28:00):
Two thirds of their energy from the sun and one
third from food.

Speaker 5 (03:28:03):
What does that mean? Food absolutely matters.

Speaker 40 (03:28:06):
You've heard it from the stage, You've heard it from
me on the Wise Tradition's podcast, saying no to what's fake,
ultra processed foods, Yes to what's real, single ingredient foods,
eating like our ancestors did. That's important, that's foundational. But
the sun is also nourishing. So I'm going to challenge
you to take on this secret by doing something I
call sunrise before screen rise.

Speaker 5 (03:28:28):
So say it after me, sunrise before screen rise. Thank
you for humoring me.

Speaker 40 (03:28:34):
I know it's cheesy, and this is what it means.

Speaker 5 (03:28:36):
This is what it means.

Speaker 40 (03:28:37):
Instead of waking up and grabbing your phone for a
thing and starting the scroll, I'm suggesting you take a
stroll and get outside.

Speaker 5 (03:28:46):
Here's why.

Speaker 40 (03:28:47):
When you start like this, you're like a puppet on
a digital string. Unfortunately, you no longer own your phone.
It owns you, and that is not the place for technology.
You're supposed to use it, not have it use you.
So by starting the day without your phone, it's a
whole new world.

Speaker 5 (03:29:06):
Literally, you step outside.

Speaker 40 (03:29:08):
And then the sun gives information to your brain. You
have this thing called the super chismatic nucleus, which always
makes me think of super fradulustic cat spalidosious. But anyway,
you have this thing called the super chismatic nucleus, and
it takes in that light information. It helps your hormones balance,
it helps your metabolism. I have a friend who just
started getting outside for two weeks.

Speaker 5 (03:29:29):
He did this, He got the sun.

Speaker 40 (03:29:30):
Before a screen for two weeks, and he lost like
twelve pounds, I know, and he didn't change anything else.
So I'm not saying it's a simple solution, but I
am saying it's a.

Speaker 5 (03:29:40):
Step in the right direction. And all I do is
I get outside.

Speaker 40 (03:29:44):
You might think sunrise that's too early for me. I
get it. Just when you first get up. Just get
that sun first. Thing ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (03:29:50):
That's all.

Speaker 40 (03:29:50):
It takes sunrise before screen rise. All right, And here's
the second secret. When I went to Ecuador in twenty
twenty one, I'm here with the Kichwa women. Notice that
they like hats too, Okay, I love that about them.
They have a festival called the Indi Raimi Festival, and
when I looked it up online, it said it's a

(03:30:11):
sun worshiping festival. Don't believe everything you read online.

Speaker 5 (03:30:15):
It was more of a thanksgiving.

Speaker 40 (03:30:17):
These people spent a week singing songs, making music, doing
these really interesting dances that look like you just jumped
off a horse like. It was really interesting and unusual,
but it was beautiful and it was gratitude to God
for the Earth and the sun. And I realized, oh,
gratitude is the antidote to a shriveled, discouraged, anxious soul.

(03:30:41):
And you all, we are in a tough place, not
just physically but mentally, and gratitude can flip the script.

Speaker 5 (03:30:46):
I'm going to tell you a story.

Speaker 40 (03:30:48):
So a friend of mine told me a few weeks
back when the Maha Commission report came out.

Speaker 5 (03:30:52):
She said, Hilda, I'm going to try to get.

Speaker 40 (03:30:54):
You to go to the White House to come to
this big unveiling. I was so excited. She said, you
will get an email seventy two hours before to let
you know.

Speaker 5 (03:31:01):
That you're in.

Speaker 40 (03:31:02):
So I got online seventy two hours before nothing. Then
I look forty eight hours before nothing, and I thought, Okay,
Alex Clark's going to be there, Courtney Swan, Max Lugevir Pasalad,
you know, Trump, Kennedy, Everyone's going to be at the
White House.

Speaker 5 (03:31:18):
But me, I had big time fomo.

Speaker 40 (03:31:20):
I was really feeling left out, and I thought, okay,
wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm going to flip
the script right now, and instead of looking at what
I don't have, I'm going to look at what I
do have, and I'm going to be grateful. And so
I started just writing. This is what I do in
the mornings. I just write down little things I'm thankful for,
and when I put my head on the pillow at night.

Speaker 5 (03:31:39):
I do the same.

Speaker 40 (03:31:40):
I review what I'm thankful for and it bookends my
day and it changes everything. And so I thought, I'm
just going to be thankful. Whether I go to the
White House or not, I'm just going to be thankful
that I've got food, that i'm with, my husband.

Speaker 13 (03:31:50):
That I'm doing things.

Speaker 5 (03:31:51):
And then the day of the event, I'm.

Speaker 40 (03:31:54):
Like looking through my emails and I see one.

Speaker 5 (03:31:56):
That says invitation, and I got invited. You don't understand.

Speaker 40 (03:32:03):
This was like three hours before the event, and I
was like, huh.

Speaker 5 (03:32:07):
So I went to.

Speaker 40 (03:32:08):
Work out and get out my nervous energy, and then
I clean myself up. My daughter helped me with my hair,
and I went there.

Speaker 5 (03:32:14):
But this is the coolest.

Speaker 40 (03:32:15):
Thing is even if I wouldn't have gone, even if
I wouldn't have been invited, I was still thankful. And
can you just feel how good that feels? So I
know how easy it is on socials to see people's
highlight reels and to neglect to see the beauty in
your own life. But by the way, that is only
the highlight reel. You don't see all the hard stuff.
You don't see all the in between stuff. You just

(03:32:35):
see the posts. So to get our eyes off of
other people's highlight reels, I think it's important to see
what's right in front of us. Have you ever seen
a kid throw like a temper tantrum because his pie
is just slightly smaller than his brothers and you're like,
this makes no sense.

Speaker 5 (03:32:51):
You've got a pie right in front of you.

Speaker 40 (03:32:53):
That's how we can be sometimes too. So I'm inviting
you to develop an attitude of gratitude.

Speaker 5 (03:32:58):
Say it after me. Attitude of attitude.

Speaker 41 (03:33:02):
Yes, you guys, scientists have studied it flips.

Speaker 5 (03:33:05):
The script in your brain. It builds new neural pathways so.

Speaker 15 (03:33:07):
That you're actually more open to seeing the.

Speaker 40 (03:33:09):
Beautiful things around you. So the first secret has to
do with the sun. The second has to do with spirit.
And like I said, if you adopt either one of these,
you'll get closer to showing up as your healthiest version
of you in this life.

Speaker 5 (03:33:22):
So now it's your turn.

Speaker 40 (03:33:23):
I want you to stand up, Stand up for a second,
turn to the person next to you, and tell them
if you want to take on sunrise before screen rise
or the attitude.

Speaker 5 (03:33:31):
Of gratitude, you have a minute each.

Speaker 42 (03:33:33):
Go okay, now switch let the other person talk.

Speaker 5 (03:34:29):
Okay.

Speaker 41 (03:34:32):
I'm so glad you verbalized it, because remember when I
said I was gonna marry Mitch Gore, Like things come
true when you talk about them, and I couldn't be
happier by the way we have been married.

Speaker 5 (03:34:43):
I can't believe this. Okay, hold on your hat.

Speaker 40 (03:34:45):
Seriously, we've been married, Like, is it true?

Speaker 5 (03:34:49):
I think it is. We've been married thirty eight years.
I can't believe it.

Speaker 40 (03:34:55):
And we have four kids and I have two grandkids.

Speaker 5 (03:34:57):
I'm in aablita now.

Speaker 40 (03:34:58):
I'm like, what's happening is amazing, and I'm thankful.

Speaker 5 (03:35:01):
But I'm going to tell you I.

Speaker 40 (03:35:03):
Want to hear more of your stories and tell you
more about these secrets that I've kind of clung to
for good health.

Speaker 5 (03:35:08):
So I'll be hanging around.

Speaker 40 (03:35:09):
Later this afternoon and evening near the west Inda Price
Foundation booth and.

Speaker 5 (03:35:13):
The Birthright booth.

Speaker 40 (03:35:14):
Those are my favorite supplements, So you guys can catch
me over there.

Speaker 5 (03:35:17):
But I want to close with this.

Speaker 40 (03:35:19):
So I was at the beach last summer with my
friend and her sons that we were playing and this
kid who is about eight years old was building a
sand castle and he said, when the little bridge started
to collapse, he said, oh man, this is.

Speaker 5 (03:35:34):
A disaster piece. Yeah, He's like, this is a disaster piece.
What did you say? And then I realized, oh my.

Speaker 40 (03:35:42):
Gosh, sometimes we think we are a disaster piece when
things aren't going right, when we feel heartbroken or lost
or lonely. But I want to tell you something. You're
not a disaster piece. You are a masterpiece. You are
fearfully and wonderful He made you.

Speaker 4 (03:36:01):
Are beautiful.

Speaker 5 (03:36:02):
Yes, and there will.

Speaker 40 (03:36:03):
Be times when you're going to feel like everything's falling apart.
But if you know the one, if you know Jesus,
the one that holds it all together and is holding
you in the palm of his hand, You're going to
be all right, and you will be able to step
into the best version of you. Like I said, adopting
these small habits. One has to do with gratitude, that's
to God.

Speaker 5 (03:36:21):
The other has to do with the sun. And sometimes
I think.

Speaker 40 (03:36:24):
What I'm really inviting you in this talk to do
is to follow the Sun in more ways than one.
So I want to close now with the words that
I close every Wise Tradition's podcast with, because I think

(03:36:45):
they've been really helpful for me and I pray that
they are for you as well. Stay well, my friend,
and remember to keep your feet on the ground and
your face.

Speaker 4 (03:36:54):
To the sun.

Speaker 5 (03:36:55):
Thank you very much, God Bleth.

Speaker 6 (03:36:56):
You absolutely loving holistic Kilda. I was unaware of her before,
but now I am ready to do Sunrise before screen Rise.

(03:37:16):
I'm going to do that sun before getting on the screen,
and hopefully, like her friends, I'll lose twelve pennouns.

Speaker 5 (03:37:25):
So you're going to commit.

Speaker 19 (03:37:26):
But you you have been on a great holistic journey,
it seems.

Speaker 5 (03:37:30):
I actually just yesterday we were talking about it. I
have been.

Speaker 6 (03:37:33):
I've been trying different things around the area.

Speaker 5 (03:37:35):
Last night it was a Kundalini.

Speaker 6 (03:37:37):
Activation, which what is Kundalini, To be honest with you,
I really don't know. I showed up, I looked great.
I showed her pictures. I was on the floor on
a yoga matt and they were doing different energies. You
close your eyes and then they walk around and they
help you get clear.

Speaker 5 (03:37:58):
So it was very Indeed, said you felt great.

Speaker 6 (03:38:01):
I felt great. A couple of weeks ago, I did
the crystal bed. Okay, I know the crystal So we're
hitting them all.

Speaker 19 (03:38:11):
Here at rab but I will say, we need to
go back to the.

Speaker 6 (03:38:16):
Crystal bedt I've got the phone. Is what We're gonna
do Sunrise before screen.

Speaker 5 (03:38:23):
Rise, which I truly love. And you know, we're so blessed.

Speaker 19 (03:38:25):
Living in South Florida, one of my favorite things to
do in the morning is to wake up before sunrise
and walk to the beach. And I actually have a
gratitude journal that I write in as often as I
can and sit at the beach, watch the sunrise and
write in my journal.

Speaker 6 (03:38:39):
Okay, so you're doing that. I am officially a disaster piece,
but I'm okay with that. Emily, you are a masterpiece.

Speaker 4 (03:38:48):
What say you?

Speaker 7 (03:38:52):
I feel like I need to be taking notes for
all or from all of these women that are giving
the health advice, the holistic advice, because I'm not anywhere
near as healthy as anyone is saying. I get my
McDonald's from time to time. I have a lot of
work to do to finally get on board with this
Make America Healthy Again movement. But like I said, I
think all young women that are tuning into our broadcaster

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watching the live stream of this event should be taking notes.
This is incredible, incredible advice from all of these women
that have been taking the stage here in Dallas, Michelle
and Ellison.

Speaker 6 (03:39:22):
Yes, I just love the exchange of ideas and being
open to new things, and that's I think what it's
all about. And it's just such a powerful group of
women coming together in love and spirituality and faith. And
you know, I just keep going back to because I
have gone to a lot of women's conferences and this
is just so radically different than anything that I've ever

(03:39:43):
been to.

Speaker 19 (03:39:43):
Yeah, good idea to plan for next year. If you
know any young women, your daughter, maybe your niece or
something like that, a great opportunity to get them involved,
because I really do think this is impactful. But speaking
of let's get back out to the stage. We don't
want you missing a thing. Our next speaker, Congresswoman best
fan done. She's a primal leader of and ye but Dne,
Oh my goodness, wow, I've had too much profits day,

(03:40:06):
A fairst defender of American values and a strong voice
for Texas in Washington.

Speaker 23 (03:40:10):
See it and this great awakening I will credit the
youth for bringing forward because I think far too long
folks in my generation in others close to my generation
just started to capitulate and they.

Speaker 38 (03:40:26):
Just started saying, you know what, if we say anything,
we're going to get canceled.

Speaker 5 (03:40:30):
Is it really worth it?

Speaker 38 (03:40:32):
And you all said absolutely, the American way is absolutely
worth it. Having a nation that we can fight for,
that we could defend is worth it. So I want
to thank all of you here for being willing and
able to do that.

Speaker 5 (03:40:46):
I've got a quick speech today.

Speaker 38 (03:40:48):
I know nobody really likes to speech afy, but I
really do want to thank you all for being here
because I think one of the reasons why you have
such a loud voice is you grew up in COVID
like when we had this government that was really trying
to shut people down, tell people what to do. When
it was it was a dictatorship where you were told

(03:41:11):
what you can and can't do, where people were being
arrested for going to the beach, where people were prevented
from seeing their grandparents who may be dying in the hospital,
Where fathers weren't prevented from were prevented from being with
their wives during childbirth because of crazy, insane policies. You

(03:41:32):
all were probably in school at the time. Some of
your families might have lost their businesses. You were prevented
from actually going to school, learning, having friendships, having those
opportunities to play in sports, all because you had a
government who said we know better than you did. We
were in an entire generation, it seems, but you're taking

(03:41:53):
it back and we've got to recognize the fact that
that is the power of.

Speaker 5 (03:41:56):
What government unreigned can happen.

Speaker 38 (03:42:00):
At the same time that we were being told no,
you can't go here, No you can't do this, you
can't say that, we saw our borders completely open. We
saw millions and millions of people enter our country illegally.

Speaker 5 (03:42:14):
We saw fetanyl coming through.

Speaker 38 (03:42:17):
We saw over two hundred thousand people die as a
result of it. We saw moms beaten, We saw nursing
students raped and left to die. We saw police officers
that were attacked in the middle of the day in
large cities across the country.

Speaker 5 (03:42:36):
And this is still happening today.

Speaker 38 (03:42:40):
Just this last month, we had a woman from North
Texas who died. This morning, I had academy pot luck,
so kids who had applied to be in our military academies.

Speaker 5 (03:42:53):
We have as sending off breakfast.

Speaker 38 (03:42:56):
There's a woman who was not able to be at
that breakfast this morning, year old avil Moore. Her dad
was there. She was a wonderful student, she was an athlete,
she was a leader. People loved her.

Speaker 4 (03:43:11):
And this past.

Speaker 5 (03:43:12):
Month, well, she was at Lake Grapevine right over here.

Speaker 38 (03:43:15):
She was kayaking. She got struck by two people on a.

Speaker 4 (03:43:23):
Vehicle.

Speaker 38 (03:43:24):
They left her to die, and then they tried to escape,
hitting other cars on their.

Speaker 5 (03:43:28):
Way out of the parking lot.

Speaker 38 (03:43:30):
These two people were illegal immigrants here from Venezuela, and
as a result, this woman who had gotten into the
Air Force Academy, we nominated her, not once, but twice.

Speaker 5 (03:43:42):
It was not able to do that.

Speaker 38 (03:43:43):
She loved her country, she wanted to fight for her country.
She's not able to do that. She's gone in an
accident that should never ever have happened. She was left
to die by people who were here who obviously didn't
care about her laws, didn't care about Laefe. We're very
selfish and flood the scene and left her to die.

Speaker 5 (03:44:04):
What she did.

Speaker 38 (03:44:05):
Her dad is a much better person than I am.

Speaker 5 (03:44:08):
I was angry.

Speaker 38 (03:44:09):
I called him and I said, I cannot believe I
can't help but think how angry you are. And he said,
I'm not He goes. I love my daughter, but I
don't want to get angry. I want to think about
all the positives. I want to celebrate her life, so
right now I'm not going to get angry.

Speaker 5 (03:44:24):
And I said, you're a better man.

Speaker 11 (03:44:25):
Than I am.

Speaker 5 (03:44:26):
I can learn from you.

Speaker 38 (03:44:27):
But I'm going to be angry for you, and we're
going to continue to fight for our country.

Speaker 5 (03:44:30):
And that's exactly what we have to do.

Speaker 38 (03:44:33):
There are still protests happening across the nation right now.

Speaker 5 (03:44:35):
There's still protests. There are sanctuary cities.

Speaker 38 (03:44:38):
Who are allowing this type of criminal element in.

Speaker 5 (03:44:43):
They're not working with our law enforcement.

Speaker 38 (03:44:45):
Christynom Tom Holman are all trying to do the right thing.
They are fighting for our nation, and what we're seeing
is sanctuary city.

Speaker 5 (03:44:55):
Policies that are preventing that from happening. And no longer
I think are people just saying, oh, it's not happening.
You open up your eyes.

Speaker 38 (03:45:03):
I think it's pretty clear, pretty clear with your own
eyes what you can see. But we are having this
great awakening, and I think it's time that we actually
have all.

Speaker 5 (03:45:11):
Of these alternative voices.

Speaker 38 (03:45:12):
I am so jealous of you because you could pick
up your phone and with just a few slipes, you
have access to so many different media, so many different podcasts.
We've got people like Dana lash The out there and
she is talking truth. You've got Riley Gaines who is
using her social media platform to get out and talk
about it.

Speaker 5 (03:45:32):
You've got Charlotte Kirk that is going on universities. All
of these things are available to you. It wasn't always
like that. You still had fighters that were willing to fight,
but she didn't have access. And with this access is
an amazing.

Speaker 38 (03:45:45):
Amount of information, but also amazing amount of responsibility. When
I was on first Cotton City Council, we had problems
back then. It was Irving, Texas, which is right around
the corner. We had problems back then with gang activity,
with people who were in our country illegally, and I
wanted to work with Immigrations and Customers.

Speaker 5 (03:46:06):
Enforcement, and we ended up working with them.

Speaker 38 (03:46:09):
But I wanted to say, if you were in our
country illegally, you shouldn't be here. You commit a crime,
you should be deported. This is not shocking. This is
called enforcing your laws and having a safe community. You
would not believe, and for some of those people who
were there around the time, you would not believe the
onslaught of hate that I received as a result, called

(03:46:30):
a hater, called a big called a racist, you name it,
white supremacist, all because I wanted to take care of
my community. I wanted to protect our citizens. And by
the way, when you start thinking about where a lot
of this crime happens.

Speaker 5 (03:46:42):
It's in the immigrant communities.

Speaker 38 (03:46:44):
So anybody that actually cares and claims to care about
the immigrant communities wasn't paying attention.

Speaker 5 (03:46:50):
They still aren't, but it took years for.

Speaker 38 (03:46:55):
The media to actually get you even get a grasp of.

Speaker 4 (03:46:58):
What that meant.

Speaker 5 (03:46:59):
And as a result of our partnership, we became one
of the fifth safest cities in the country.

Speaker 38 (03:47:04):
We saw crime and all sorts of aspects, in every
aspect go down. People wanted to move their businesses, wanted
to be there. But do you think that the newspaper
wrote about it.

Speaker 5 (03:47:14):
Nope, they did not. And years later when I was
when I became mayor of that city.

Speaker 38 (03:47:19):
We had a group of a mom's in North Texas
that started a Islamic tributal that.

Speaker 5 (03:47:25):
Followed Sharia law.

Speaker 38 (03:47:27):
They advertised it, they put a website on it, they
had an interviews on it. When all I did was
call it out because as mayor, I was told that
the city of Irving was.

Speaker 5 (03:47:40):
Actually starting this.

Speaker 38 (03:47:41):
We weren't starting it, but I called it out and
I went on Facebook, I know, an old platform.

Speaker 5 (03:47:49):
And the only thing that I wrote was, hey give
us a chance. We're looking into this.

Speaker 38 (03:47:53):
We are finding out whether or not it's legal that
the city of Irving didn't do this.

Speaker 5 (03:47:58):
But this is why closed with.

Speaker 38 (03:48:00):
American citizens need to remember that their rights are guaranteed
by the Constitution. I believe no one should subjugate themselves
to anything less.

Speaker 5 (03:48:07):
While I am.

Speaker 38 (03:48:08):
Working to better understand how this court will function and
who will be subject to its decisions, please know that
if it's determined there are violations of basic rights occurring,
I will not stand by idle. I will fight with
every fiber of my being against this action. Our nation
cannot be so overly sensitive in defending other cultures that

(03:48:28):
we stop protecting our own. The American Constitution and our
guaranteed rights rape the frame on our nation. And may
that ever be the case.

Speaker 5 (03:48:40):
What was argumentative about that? What was nasty about that?
What was negative about that?

Speaker 38 (03:48:47):
You would have thought that I had declared war on
the entire Middle East as a result of that statement.
And the funny thing was the irony of that was
is that the AmAm that was really the head that
the mainstream media basically canonized years later, was found to
have found guilty in court of having used a thirteen

(03:49:10):
year old girl.

Speaker 5 (03:49:10):
He basically was grooming her for sex.

Speaker 4 (03:49:13):
This is my fear all along.

Speaker 38 (03:49:15):
Is that when we started looking at some of these communities,
what they what they stood for, the following of Sharia
law led to a lot of nasty things with women,
and the paper never wrote about it. They never went
back and apologized for it. But now we do have
an opportunity, and I'll tell you.

Speaker 5 (03:49:30):
I'll give you a perfect example.

Speaker 38 (03:49:31):
Riley Gaines, just a couple of weeks ago when she,
you know, was called out by a Texas Olympian, Simon Biles.
Simone Biles, you know, within moments, basically what happened.

Speaker 5 (03:49:45):
Was they started she started being getting defended. People were
defending you know.

Speaker 38 (03:49:50):
A couple of years ago, she would have been shut down.

Speaker 5 (03:49:54):
But what ended up happening, Simon.

Speaker 38 (03:49:57):
Doug Cooked and fas because people like you were standing
up to the craziness.

Speaker 5 (03:50:05):
You are standing up to the craziness, and that's right.

Speaker 38 (03:50:08):
That has to happen. Back in twenty sixteen, during I
guess it was January twenty seventeen. I had taken my daughter.
At the time, President Trump had just gotten elected, and
I went up to d C and I don't know
how many of you remember the pink parties, the parade
where they had a bunch of really angry women who
had already gotten tickets to d C, had already gotten

(03:50:29):
hotels that couldn't cancel, so decided to go up and
have a parade because Hillary Clinton lost.

Speaker 5 (03:50:34):
I was going downstairs in the elevator. We were on
our way out.

Speaker 38 (03:50:37):
Of town, and I passed this woman who had a
sign that said I am afraid.

Speaker 5 (03:50:43):
It really angered me because I just thought white.

Speaker 38 (03:50:47):
My daughter, who was sixteenth at the time, is looking
at this thing. And we get in the cab and
wait from the hotel.

Speaker 5 (03:50:52):
To the airport.

Speaker 11 (03:50:53):
I just write a quick.

Speaker 38 (03:50:54):
Tweet at the time, and I just said to the
woman who I just saw on the High Regency wearing
a sign, I am afraid. I am a woman, I
am fierce, I am a fighter. I am not a victim.
I am not afraid.

Speaker 5 (03:51:10):
That message needs to carry on. If you really want
to drive the radical.

Speaker 38 (03:51:15):
Left extremists crazy, have a family, get married, go to church,
teach your kids American history. Have them actually love the
values of our nation, know what our history is, so
that when they hear it being defiled when they hear

(03:51:36):
lies about it, you and your kids can defend it
with the truth that will drive them absolutely insane. I'm
telling you right now, when we start having kids that
are going to college and they are arguing with their
professors and they know from where they speak, it will
start turning this country around. It already has. It's insane

(03:51:57):
what we have seen last year. But I'm going to
challenge you all. I'm going to challenge all of you
here today to take this opportunity, this tremendous responsibility that
is really on your nations and your generation's shoulders, and
use it for good.

Speaker 4 (03:52:10):
Use it for truth, Use it.

Speaker 38 (03:52:11):
To show others that their lives and their futures will
be immeasurable better by standing up to those those truths
that they believe in, to believe in the goodness of America,
and to know that we are stronger together rather than
being separated by hyphenated Americans and victimology groups.

Speaker 5 (03:52:29):
If you really want to be a.

Speaker 38 (03:52:30):
Rebel, go start a family. With President Trump's reelection and
this great awakening happening in our country, we truly have
an important moment in our lifetimes to break free from
the corrupt and the controlling global shackles that we see
that golden age of America is before us.

Speaker 5 (03:52:46):
And you are here today because you see it.

Speaker 38 (03:52:49):
You feel it, you know it in your soul, and
now we need you to go out and share it
because our future in America's future depends on it.

Speaker 5 (03:52:59):
I want to God bless you. I'm on a God
bless turning point.

Speaker 38 (03:53:02):
God bless the loan State of Texas, and God bless
her nation.

Speaker 5 (03:53:05):
Thank you for much.

Speaker 28 (03:53:09):
And now we have two minutes.

Speaker 5 (03:53:10):
Do we have two guys for questions? Do there anything?

Speaker 38 (03:53:13):
I will try to be braised. Just come here and
I'll yell at political science student at a university in university,
no questions over here?

Speaker 5 (03:53:29):
Right, I got two days left.

Speaker 11 (03:53:31):
I'll try to be fast.

Speaker 4 (03:53:34):
Okay.

Speaker 43 (03:53:35):
My name is Emma and I'm a political science student
at a very liberal college in Nebraska who often gets
in fights with her professors a lot. And I'm looking
into getting into politics myself. So as a woman in politics,
do you have any like tips or guidance to getting
into that sphere?

Speaker 38 (03:53:49):
Yes, don't look at as your a woman in politics. Okay,
then if you're a leader in politics that you want
to do for the right reasons. You understand that half
the country is going to hate you and they're going
to tell.

Speaker 5 (03:53:58):
You what's wrong with you, know why you want to
do it.

Speaker 38 (03:54:00):
You're the only person at the end of the day
has to look in the mirror and know how you
vote it, Recognize it's going to be hard, do it anyway.

Speaker 5 (03:54:07):
Okay, thank you much us.

Speaker 37 (03:54:10):
Hi, how many illegal immigrants are like criminals versus ones
that I actually want to contribute to America and join
the working class?

Speaker 38 (03:54:18):
Would you say, well, you can argue that anybody who
comes here and breaks our laws and comes to our
country without obeying the laws and gets in mind.

Speaker 5 (03:54:25):
That you can argue that they're all criminals. I mean,
we can argue that.

Speaker 38 (03:54:29):
Now, sure people don't want to come here for the
right reasons, we have avenues for them to be able
to do that, and we welcome them. We are a
nation based on immigration. That is a good thing. We
like the diversity. What we don't like is people coming
into our country and not wanting to simlight and.

Speaker 5 (03:54:43):
We're seeing it firsthand every day.

Speaker 38 (03:54:45):
There are pathways to get into our country, and unfortunately
those pathways are.

Speaker 5 (03:54:49):
Slowed down because we're having to deal with so much
illegal immigration right now. Yeah.

Speaker 29 (03:54:55):
Hi, So I'm a high school student at a very
liberal school in Massachusetts, and I've had a lot of
disagreements with my classmates over illegal immigrants. Yes, And I
wanted to ask why you think that so many Americans,
including some in media and politics, not just my school,
are so welcoming towards undocumented immigrants, even in cases when

(03:55:15):
there's a criminal background involved. Because I don't think it's
just opposition against Trump and his ideologies.

Speaker 5 (03:55:20):
I think you've been lied to.

Speaker 38 (03:55:21):
I think that that's been the narrative. And I think
when you think about it, all gets down of power.
That you've got a lot of Democrats cities, a lot
of Democrat districts that are losing population because those people
that live there are voting with their feet and they're
moving to conservative areas, and that they are happy to
give up control. They're happy to give up our freedoms
and our safety in order to be able to have
more population there so that Democrats don't lose their district

(03:55:43):
seats in Congress.

Speaker 5 (03:55:44):
But thank you guys so much. You know, a conference
of one Bet van.

Speaker 6 (03:55:57):
Die an incredible speech and also some really fantastic questions
there by really some young budding journalists, those immigration questions.
She the congresswoman, did not miss a beat when that
young woman asked her about illegal immigrants and possibly some

(03:56:17):
immigrants being put into the workforce or assimilating. She really
snapped right back.

Speaker 5 (03:56:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (03:56:25):
And you know, I think, especially during this conference, it
is so important to have those question portions in order
to allow the young girls that are ultimately there for
this advice to have those interactions and get their questions answered,
because this is ultimately an opportunity to grow.

Speaker 5 (03:56:40):
Emily Yeah, Emily.

Speaker 11 (03:56:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (03:56:43):
And this is this is a hot topic, you know
throughout America today with all of the No King's protests happening,
the anti ice riots in Los Angeles getting out of control.
I'm sure all of our viewers have been seeing the
news headlines on all of this. And you know, right
now the military parade, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

Speaker 8 (03:57:00):
The birthday of the Army.

Speaker 7 (03:57:01):
That military parade in DC is about to be underway,
and we know that there are some protests planned there.
Make sure that you're tuning in to Real America's voice
throughout the rest of the day. We will have live
coverage and we'll be bringing you the latest on how
all of that plays out, Michelle and Allison.

Speaker 5 (03:57:15):
So it's going to be fabulous.

Speaker 6 (03:57:17):
It's going to be a fabulous day, fabulous evening. We're
going to have the coverage through the fireworks.

Speaker 5 (03:57:22):
At the end.

Speaker 6 (03:57:23):
And I just think it was really this entire event
so far was just tremendous. What Charlie Kirk has and
Erica Kirk has put.

Speaker 5 (03:57:34):
Together is a.

Speaker 6 (03:57:37):
It's such a service to this country and to watch
it grow over the past several years, it's just been phenomenal.

Speaker 5 (03:57:44):
I can't overstate the effect that I'd like to say
that young man. You know, he's in his thirties now.

Speaker 6 (03:57:53):
But the effect he's had on this country and the
course of history, it's just extraordinary. And you think that
every time he does something, you're like, he can't top that,
and then he does it again. And now he's been
such a strong leader for young men in this country,
growing considerably, and I think that he can also be

(03:58:14):
a leader for strong women.

Speaker 19 (03:58:17):
And if you look at it, ladies, the younger generations
are the future. They're coming up, and I truly do
believe it's our job. It's all of our jobs to
educate them and allow them to have the viewpoints and
the opinions and understand everything that's going on so they
don't turn into a woke society, which we've seen. But
I think they're coming back on course. So just a

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phenomenal job there. The Young Women's Leadership Summit.

Speaker 5 (03:58:40):
Not over yet.

Speaker 19 (03:58:41):
Before we go though, Emily, you are there physically in Dallas.
Just give us one quick lay of the land. How
many people are there, what was the atmosphere like?

Speaker 5 (03:58:50):
Just tell us what's going on real quick.

Speaker 7 (03:58:55):
There is a lot of high energy and the sea
of young women here in Dallas, I would say showed up.

Speaker 8 (03:59:01):
To this event.

Speaker 7 (03:59:01):
As we know, they are high school, college students, young
women that are trying to navigate their families, their their jobs,
their roles in society. A lot of great conversations here
that will continue throughout the weekend at the Young Women's
Leadership Summit.

Speaker 8 (03:59:15):
Thank you so much to all of.

Speaker 7 (03:59:16):
Our viewers for tuning in to our coverage. I hope
that you are just as inspired as I was.

Speaker 6 (03:59:22):
Absolutely fabulous coverage. Emily, you were fantastic out there. We
love spending time with you.

Speaker 5 (03:59:29):
Michelle.

Speaker 6 (03:59:30):
Thank you so much for coming in today, it was
great to be with you and all of the women
out there.

Speaker 5 (03:59:36):
Thank for yourself, stand up. I just love all of
you out there.

Speaker 6 (03:59:41):
I want you to be inspired and go forth and
live the truth and do it with faith. So please
stay tuned because we have coverage of the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the Army the Pride.

Speaker 4 (03:59:58):
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